Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
Summary
We came to Baltimore, viâ Philadelphia; and though I very much admired the regularity of the Iron City's streets, and the beauty of many of the principal buildings, its profusion of white marble, and its perfection of cleanliness, I was glad to escape from its unearthly nightly noises, and the wars and rumours of wars which seemed unceasing and ever-increasing in the City of Brotherly Love,–to Baltimore.
The Society of Friends at any rate, methinks, must gain many converts in the former place. Verily I was a Quaker all the time I stayed there, and still tremble at the recollection of it. All night a sound, as of a masque and procession of one hundred menageries let loose, filled one's ears. The deserts of Africa seemed to have disgorged half their denizens on the beautiful streets of fair Philadelphia; while bells, horns, gongs, and rattling fire-engines, helped to swell the hideous chorus.
I had understood there had been, some time ago, serious riots at Philadelphia, but that they were all over now, and I was, naturally, surprised at this hubbub; but on inquiring the next morning, all I learnt was, – it was the fashion of the dwellers of Moyamensing, a suburb of Philadelphia, called, I believe, a “district,” to regale the ears of the inhabitants of that city frequently with such harmonious serenades.
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- Travels in the United States, etc. during 1849 and 1850 , pp. 139 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009