[Footnote M: Referring to the common practice of bathing the raw and bleeding backs of the punished slaves with a strong solution of salt and water.] [Footnote N: _Words to the West. Knickerbocker Magazine_, Oct., 1861.] [Footnote O: _Continental Magazine_, March, 1862. See article, _Southern Aids to the North_.] [Footnote P: Don't speak of quacks; just take your dose; Why should you try to mend it, If Doctor H---- concocts the pill, And _Parsons_ recommend it? See _Amer. Jour. of Sci._, Vol. xxx., 2d Scr., pages 10-12.]