ETHICS

profitable for both planter and negro ; and it is believed that a general
adoption of that method will then follow.
A PLAIN
And where so
many are saying their
say, shall not the bar-
keeper testify? He
is thoughtful, obser-
vant, never drinks}
endeavours to earn
his salary, and would
earn it if there were
custom enough. He
says the people along
here in Mississippi
and [Louisiana will
send up the river to
buy vegetables rather
than raise them, and
they will come aboard
at the landings and
buy fruits of the bar-
keeper. Thinks they
* don't know anything
but cotton; * believes
they don't know how
to raise vegetables
and fruit—^t at least
the most of them.' X?r—_
Says * a nigger will go
to H for a water-
melon' ('H' is all I
find in the steno-
grapher's report—
means Halifax pro-
bably, though that seems a good way to go for a watermelon). Bar-
keeper buys watermelons for five cents up the river, brings them
down and sells them for fifty. * Why does he mix such elaborate aaad
picturesque drinks for the nigger hands on the boat ?" Because they