Governor Wolcott--Toleration--Mr. Monroe--Private Life of Washington --Thomas Jefferson--The Object and Science of Government--Court Etiquette--Nature the Teacher and Guide in all Things CHAPTER XVI. PARTY PRINCIPLES. Origin of Parties--Federal and Republican Peculiarities--Jefferson's Principles and Religion--Democracy--Virginia and Massachusetts Parties--War with France--Sedition Law--Lyman Beecher--The Almighty Dollar--"Hail Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle" CHAPTER XVII. CONGRESS IN ITS BRIGHTEST DAYS. Missouri Compromise--John Randolph's Juba--Mr. Macon--Holmes and Crawford--Mr. Clay's Influence--James Barbour--Philip P. Barbour-- Mr. Pinkney--Mr. Beecher, of Ohio--"Cuckoo, Cuckoo!"--National Roads --William Lowndes--William Roscoe--Duke of Argyle--Louis McLean-- Whig and Democratic Parties CHAPTER XVIII. FRENCH AND SPANISH TERRITORY. Settlers on the Tombigbee and Mississippi Rivers--La Salle--Natchez --Family Apportionment--The Hill Country--Hospitality--Benefit of African Slavery--Capacity of the Negro--His Future CHAPTER XIX. THE NATCHEZ TRADITIONS. Natchez--Mizezibbee; or, The Parent of Many Waters--Indian Mounds-- The Child of the Sun--Treatment of the Females--Poetic Marriages-- Unchaste Maids and Pure Wives--Walking Archives--The Profane Fire-- Alahoplechia--Oyelape--The Chief with a Beard CHAPTER XX. EXPLORATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. Chicago--Crying Indians--Chickasaws--De Soto--Feast of the Great Sun--Cane-Knives--Love-stricken Indian Maiden--Rape of the Natchez --Man's Will--Subjugation of the Waters--The Black Man's Mission--Its Decade CHAPTER XXI. TWO STRANGE BEINGS. Romance of Western Life--Met by Chance--Parting on the Levee--Meeting at the Sick-Bed--Convalescent--Love-Making--"Home, Sweet Home"-- Theological Discussion--Uncle Tony--Wild, yet Gentle--An Odd Family--The Adventurer Speculates CHAPTER XXII. THE ROMANCE CONTINUED. Father Confessor--Open Confession--The Unread Will--Old Tony's Narrative--Squirrel Shooting--The Farewell Unsaid--Brothers-in-Law-- Farewell Indeed CHAPTER XXIII. WHEN SUCCESSFUL, RIGHT; WHEN NOT, WRONG. Territorial Mississippi--Wilkinson--Adams--Jefferson--Warren--Claiborne--Union of the Factions--Colonel Wood--Chew--David Hunt--Joseph Dunbar--Society of Western Mississippi--Pop Visits of a Week to Tea--The Horse "Tom" and his Rider--Our Grandfathers' Days--An Emigrant's Outfit--My Share--George Poindexter--A Sudden Opening of a Court of Justice--The Caldwell and Gwinn Duel--Jackson's Opposition to the Governor of Mississippi CHAPTER XXIV. THE SILVER-TONGUED ORATOR. John A. Quitman--Robert J. Walker--Robert H. Adams--From a Cooper-Shop to the United States Senate--Bank Monopoly--Natchez Fencibles--Scott in Mexico--Thomas Hall--Sargent S. Prentiss--Vicksburg--Single-speech Hamilton--God-inspired Oratory--Drunk by Absorption--Killing a Tailor--Defence of Wilkinson CHAPTER XXV. A FINANCIAL CRASH.