"_Nostalgia._ An unconquerable desire of returning to one's native country, frequent in long voyages, in which the patients become so insane as to throw themselves into the sea, mistaking it for green fields and meadows. The Swiss are said to be particularly liable to this disease, and when taken into foreign service frequently desert from this cause, and especially after hearing or singing a particular tune, which was used in their village dances, in their native country; on which account their playing or singing this tune was punished with death. Zwingerus. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill, which lifts him to the storms. Goldsmith." Zoonomia, Cl. III. 1. 1. 6. The late _indefatigable Rush_, in his Inquiry into the Causes of the Derangement of the Human Mind, states, that the slaves imported into the _West Indies from Africa_, frequently become distracted when they are about to commence the toils of perpetual slavery on the plantations. N. B. This "_indefatigable_ RUSH" was, indeed, _indefatigable_ in _puffing himself off_ for a friend of _humanity_, in which he was pretty successful too. He made his court to the Quakers, and even exceeded some of them in cunning. It was as puny a creature, in point of talent, as ever contrived to get a reputation for wisdom. Principles he had none: he wrote about every thing, and about nothing well; but, as a _pretender_ to humanity he was consummate. Only mind how he _here_ calls for indignation against the "_West India_" planters. Not a word about those of his own "_free country_!" What a hypocrite! He was a Doctor of Physic; and he knew well that he would have lost his best patients, those that paid best for the _blood-letting_, (for which he was so famous) if he had made free with the Slave-holders of his own "free-country."--W. C. [20] To those speculators in human flesh, who purchase free people as well as slaves, without discrimination, I must now apply the title of _Man-Dealers_, instead of Slave Traders. [21] While interrogating him about the manner of his being seized and bound, he gave his chains a shake, by moving his feet on the floor, and with vexation muttered, "When the devil gets 'em he'll _chain them_." "No, no," said I, "you shouldn't make such speeches as that, perhaps they were brought up to such things, and don't know any better." "_Well but_," said he, "_they know what's right_." I have since been assured, that several instances of _black_ man-stealing had occurred, in which fathers, sons, brothers, and even wives and daughters, were promiscuously engaged. [22] I was informed, on my arrival in the neighbourhood where this affair was transacted, that this _person_, on hearing that the mulatto man had been intercepted at Washington, said he had a _bad pain_ on his mind, and believed he should _clear out_; which he had done accordingly.