The Slave-Auction (continued)--"A Fine Young Woman"--A Man and his Wife--Jim, the Blacksmith--A Family--A Ploughboy--Cornelia--Another Jim--Tom, the House Boy--Edmund--Tom, and "his reserved rights"--A Carriage Driver--Margaret and her Child LETTER VIII. St. Louis Exchange--Inspection of Human Chattels--Artizan Slaves--Scenes and Proceedings of the Auction--Sale of the Men LETTER IX. Sale of Women--Second Sabbath in New Orleans--Cricket in front of the Presbyterian "Church"--The Baptist "Church"--A Peep at an American Sabbath School--Proceedings in "Church"--A Sermon on "The New Birth"--Nut-cracking during Sermon--"Close Communion" LETTER X. Interview with a Baptist Minister--Conversation with a Young Man in the Baptist Church--The Presbyterian Church, and Dr. Scott again--A Peep at the House of Representatives of Louisiana--Contrast between the French and the Americans in the Treatment of their Slaves--Dinner Table in New Orleans--American Manners LETTER XI. Farewell to New Orleans--Revolting Bargain--"The Anglo Saxon" Steam-boat--Moderate Fare--Steam Navigation of the Mississippi --Steam-boat and Railway Literature--Parting View of the "Crescent City"--Slave Advertisements--Baton Rouge--A Sugar Estate--Fellow-Passengers--The Ladies' Cabin--A Baptist Minister--A Reverend Slave-holder LETTER XII. Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)--"Patriarchal" Establishments--The Red River--Elder Wright--Lynch Law administered by a Preacher--Natchez --Story of Mary Brown--The Flat Boats of the Mississippi LETTER XIII. Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)--Grand Gulph and Big Black River--Snags--"I belong to myself, Sir"--Vicksburg and Lynch Law--A Man Overboard--"Drove of Horses, Mules, and Niggers"--Character of Fellow-Passengers--The Sabbath--Disobedience to Conscience LETTER XIV. Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)--The Arkansas--Treatment of the Indians--M de Tocqueville--"Napoleon" and Lynch Law--Memphis, and its Advertisements--A Scene witnessed there--The Ohio--Nashville, and Amos Dresser LETTER XV. Voyage up the Ohio (continued)--Illinois--Evansville--Owensborough --Indiana--New Albany--Louisville, and its Cruel Histories--The Grave of President Harrison--Arrival in Cincinnati--First Impressions--The Congregational Minister--A Welsh Service LETTER XVI. Stay at Cincinnati (continued)--Close of the Welsh Service--The Governor of Ohio and his Relatives--The "Black Laws"--Governor Bebb's Hostility to them--Dr. Weed and American Versatility--Private Lodgings--Introduction to Dr. Beecher and others--A Peep at a Democratic Meeting LETTER XVII. Stay at Cincinnati (continued)--The Democratic Meeting--A Visit to Lane Seminary--"Public Declamation"--Poem on War--Essay on Education LETTER XVIII.