and overbearing, than the same class in other parts of the Union.  On the contrary, there is an urbanity about Southern slaveholders, that enables the lower classes to approach them with less embarrassment than they feel when they attempt to approach the frigid, stiff, and less polite Northerner.  Gentlemen and ladies, in the Southern part of the United States, are accustomed to treat every one that approaches them, rich or poor, with a degree of civility and courteous ease, that is unknown among the same class in any other part of the civilized world.  Their blandness and kindness cannot fail to make the poor man feel happier and better.  If he is forced to approach them for the purpose of soliciting aid, he is seldom turned away empty.  They are universally liberal and hospitable.  Having practiced medicine among them twenty years, I have no recollection of a solitary instance in which any of them made a long face, when I made out a long bill for services.  I will here relate some anecdotes which will serve to illustrate Southern character.  Being pressed at a certain time for two hundred dollars, and not having time at my disposal to collect it, and having rendered important services for a wealthy citizen near the town in which I resided; I seated myself at my table, with an intention of making out a bill against him that would liquidate the claim against myself.  With considerable difficulty, I at length screwed up the bill to two hundred dollars, and off I posted to his house.  I found him at home and presented the bill; not without some misgivings, that perchance he might take exceptions to the amount charged for services.  But I was disappointed, for after looking over the bill a few moments, he remarked, “why sir, you have not charged me half enough; you ought to have charged me five hundred dollars.”  He paid the bill, made me a present of fifty dollars, and told me that if I needed money at any time to “call and get it.”  At another time I was employed by a gentleman to attend his son, who had been, for several years previous to that time, subject to epileptic attacks.  The fee, per visit, was stipulated at the outset, and I was paid for each visit before leaving the house, according to contract.  I attended the young gentleman near two years, and during the time was pressed for money and borrowed one hundred dollars of the old gentleman, and executed my note for that amount.  Some years after I had dismissed my patient, I called for my note, and presented the amount, principal and interest.  The gentleman handed me the note, but refused to receive the money, and when I pressed him to take it, he replied, “No sir, I shall not receive the money, I always intended to give it to you, provided that you cured my son, and I presume he is well.”