CHAPTER VIII.

First Sight of a Cotton-field—Spanish Moss—A Night on the Rails—Many kinds of sameness in America—Maize—Order of Succession in the Forest—Its extent—Evergreens in the Southern Forest—Poor land in the South may be more profitable than rich land in the West—Deadness of Charleston—Its Hotels—A Charleston Sam Weller—The Naples of the United States—Few English Travellers—Sufferings of Southern Families—Want of schools—How the deficiency is being supplied—Blacks should be put on same footing as Whites—Dialogue with Black Member of Convention—Another Convention—Able Black Member—South Carolina Orphan Asylum 109