Helm was more fortunate the second day.

Buffer won the smaller purse, but the Captain came from the races, a much poorer man than when they commenced.

These repeated failures and heavy losses had the effect to arouse him to a sense of his pecuniary position, and he soon after began to think and talk about going to some new country.
He resolved at last to visit the far-off "Genesee Country," which he shortly after put in practice, and after an absence of about three weeks he returned in good health, and delighted with the country; the more so, doubtless, because he said, "the more slaves a man possessed in that country the more he would be respected, and the higher would be his position in society." Capt.

Helm finally concluded to sell his plantation and stock, except the slaves, and remove to the Genesee Country, where he designed to locate his future residence.
The plantation and stock (retaining the slaves) were advertised for sale, and on a certain day named, all would be disposed of at a public sale, or to the highest bidder.
When the day of sale arrived, there flocked from all parts of the surrounding country the largest assemblage of people I ever saw in that place.

A large number of wealthy and respectable planters were present, whose gentlemanly behavior should have been an example to others.
The majority of that vast crowd, however, were a rough, quarrelsome, fighting set, just such as might be expected from slave-holding districts.
There were several regularly fought battles during the first day of the sale.
One Thomas Ford, a large, muscular, ferocious-looking fellow, a good specimen of a southern bully and woman-whipper, had been victorious through the day in numerous fights and brawls; but he had to pay dear for it when night came.