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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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I am told that the President's salary is only $25,000. 20th at Saratoga All the waiters here are niggers they pay in this land of equality & are much more like waiters than the Americans "I like a nigger waiter because I can order him about in a way that I cant a white" that is the sentiment & a white cannot be ordered to do much in this high & mighty republic. 21st Sunday Went to Episcopalian church Liturgy very nearly like our own one improvement is that they bring in the N.T. commandments after the Old in the form of "Hear also what our Lord Jesus saith" 22nd Rail to Utica via Albany (5 hours) At Utica I noticed several
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I am told that the President's salary is only $25,000. 20th at Saratoga All the waiters here are niggers they pay in this land of equality & are much more like waiters than the Americans "I like a nigger waiter because I can order him about in a way that I cant a white" that is the sentiment & a white cannot be ordered to do much in this high & mighty republic. 21st Sunday Went to Episcopalian church Liturgy very nearly like our own one improvement is that they bring in the N.T. commandments after the Old in the form of "Hear also what our Lord Jesus saith" 22nd Rail to Utica via Albany (5 hours) At Utica I noticed several
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