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[22]

will boast of rooming
with a white man, for
a whole week. The Pro-
prietor of this (City) Hotel
hires slaves of their masters.

March 31, Baltimore

Had a small meeting
last night, The landlord
agreed to see me started
from Alexandria in time
for to connect with the 8
Oclock train from Washington
but he did not, seemed to
be perfectly indifferent to my
request. There is no promptness
no order, no anything about
these Southerners. I have
had Pro-Slavery People tell me
just go South once, & see
Slavery as it is, & then you will
talk very differently. I can
assure all such, that contact
with Slavery has not a ten-
dency to make one hate it
less, No, No, the ruinous effect
of the institution, upon the
white man alone, causes
me to hate it --

Arrived at Washington

[23]
[March 31 / 54?]

about 9 Oclock, Called on
Mrs. Davis, The Globe of
29 March commented on
Mrs. Rose lecture on the
Nebraska Question as de-
duced from Human Rights
very favorably, but misrep
resented her on remark -

I came on to Baltimore
on the 31st P. M., called on
Dr. J. E. Snodgrass firstly &
then, went in search of
a private boarding house,
finally decided to take rooms
at Mrs. Waters, 48 Hannover St.

Every thing is plain but so
far seems cleanly. learned
from the Chambermaid
Sarah, that she & ?? others
of the Servants were
slaves. - It is perfectly
astonishing to see what an
array of Servants there is about
every establishment, three
Northern girls, with the en-
gineering of a northern boarding
house keeper would do all the
work of one dozen of these men, wo
men & children, whether Slaves or