The sum total of their locomotion might be said to be, turning softly to one side of their chairs, and then softly to the other.

Having no personal cares to harass them, and no political questions to agitate them--having no extended speculations to push, and no public enterprises to prosecute, (save occasionally when a wreck on the southern point throws them into a ferment,) the lives of the higher classes seem a perfect blank, as it regards every thing manly.

Their thoughts are chiefly occupied with sensual pleasure, anticipated or enjoyed.

The centre of existence to them is the _dinner-table_.
"They eat and drink and sleep, and then-- Eat and drink and sleep again." That the abolition of slavery has laid the foundation for a reform in this respect, there can be no doubt.

The indolence and inefficiency of the white community has grown out of slavery.