' Before the party had fully discovered his
name he was usually designated as 'the obliging gentleman,' or 'that
gentleman who is so accommodating.' Yet our friend, withal, is of
Irish extraction, and I have seen him roused to talk with both hands
and a dozen words in a breath. He fell into a little talk about
abolition and slavery with our good Mr. Jones, a man whose mode of
reasoning consists in repeating the same sentence at regular intervals
as long as you choose to answer it. This man, who was finally
convinced that negroes were black, used it as an irrefragible argument
to all that could be said, and at last began to deduce from it that
they might just as well be slaves as anything else, and so he
proceeded till all the philanthropy of our friend was roused, and he
sprung up all lively and oratorical and gesticulatory and indignant to
my heart's content. I like to see a quiet man that can be roused."
In the same letter she gives her impressions of Niagara, as follows :--
"I have seen it (Niagara) and yet live. Oh, where is your soul? Never
mind, though. Let me tell, if I can, what is unutterable. Elisabeth,
it is not _like_ anything; it did not look like anything I
expected; it did not look like a waterfall. I did not once think
whether it was high or low; whether it roared or didn't roar; whether
it equaled my expectations or not. My mind whirled off, it seemed to
me, in a new, strange world.
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