Identifier: southernstatesof00kingrich (find matches)
Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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294 THK CEMETEUV. house, called the Union, built expressly for them. Natchez had an excellent system of public schools before the war, and the Natchez Institute, the original free-school, is still kept up. The Catholic institutions are numerousand thriving. A good many of the negroes, as in Louisiana, are Catholics. One-half of the population of Natchez is black, and seems to live on terms of amity with the white half. White and black children play together in the streets, and one sometimes feels like asking Why, if that be so, should
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A Mississippi River Steamer arriving at Natchez the>- not go to school together? But the people of Mississippi, like the people throughout the South, will not hear of mixed schools. The negroes are vocifer-ously prominent as hackmen, wharfmen, and public servants generally; but theydo not like to leave the town and settle down to hard work on the worn-out hillsat the back of the city. On the bluffs, some three miles from the town, is a national cemetery,beautifully planned and decorated, and between it and Natchez stands the dilapidated United States Marine Hospital, and the grass-grown ramparts of Fort Mcpherson mark the site of a beautiful mansion which was razed for military purposes. When its owner, a rich Frenchman, was offered compensation by the army officer superintending the work, he gruffly refused it, saying that heb.ad enough still left to buy the United States Government. U OP TAXATION — A PARISH JURY DAVE YOUNG. 295 IS in Natchez and vicinity are very oppressive, amounti

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