Carried to the Cotton Fields of Mississippi in 1849.--Cotton Picking Under a Mean Overseer and Method of Treatment.--Good Masters Even in That State.--Master Decides to Carry His Slaves Back to Missouri, Which Causes Great Rejoicing.--Handshaking When they Reached Brunswick, Mo.--Work in a Tobacco Factory.--Positive Refusal to go with Master to Texas in 1855.--His Anger, but Final Acquiescence.--Pleasant Life in Tobacco Factories Because Master did not whip his Slaves nor Allow it to be Done by Others.--White and Colored preachers.--Rev. Uncle Tom Ewing and his Objectionable Prayer.--Virtue and Marital Relations Encouraged by Masters Among Slaves.--High Toned Slaves.--Death by Suicide rather than Disgrace 60 CHAPTER VII. Status of Free Negroes in Missouri Prior to the War.--Had but Little More Liberties than Slaves.--Guardians to Attend to their Business.--Could not Leave Home without a Pass.--Free Davy an Exception.--Respected and Treated like a Man by all who Knew Him.--Blood will Tell and he had Superior Blood.--Free Born People Considered Themselves Better than Those Freed by the War.--Bitter Feeling Between the two Classes ended Several Years after the War.--The War Freed Both Classes.--Rev. Jesse Mills and Rev. Moses White, Ex-Slaves and Failure to get Assignments.--Rev. W. A. Moore and J. W. Wilson, Ex-Slaves Occupying good Charges 76 CHAPTER VIII. Life on a Farm and Master hard to Please.--Slaves Raised their Own Crop which Master sold for Them.--Good Old Father Ashby Treated his Slaves Kindly while Rev. S. J. M. Beebe was the Meanest Master in the Neighborhood.--Chas. Cabell, Called Hard Master.--Personal Experience Shows he had a Lazy lot of Slaves.--Ill-treated beast of Burden and Ill-treated Slaves are much Alike.--Dan Kellogg as a Free Sailer Before the War and as a Rebel Bushwhacker During it 82 CHAPTER IX. Campaign of 1860, more Exciting than the Hard Cider One of 1840.--Bob Toombs’ Declaration.--Split in the National Democratic Party at Charleston, S. C., April 23, 1860.--Cause and Results.--Lincoln Elected.--Missouri’s Vote for S. A. Douglass.--Higher Power than Man in Control.--All Classes Suffered by the War, but Neutrals Most.--Poor Illiterate Whites out as Patrols to Keep Slaves Quiet.--Fun with those Patrols who Could not Read Passes.--Lindsey Watts, and How He Fooled Them.--Who Set the Town on Fire?--No Judas Among Slaves.--They Believed the War was for their Freedom.--Best Blood Went South to Shoot and be Shot at While Cowards Remained as Bushwhackers.--James Long, the Original Lincoln Man.--His Misfortune a Blessing.--Slave Property a Dead Weight to Owners After 1862.--Business of Negro Traders at an End for Ever.--Master’s Slave his best Friend After All.--Master’s Property Stolen by White Thieves in Uncle Sam’s Uniform.--Young Master Returns after the War, Broken in Health, Cash and Disfranchised 93