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27A It was said of the Americans that they are born in a hurry, live in a worry & go to N.O. to die of Yellow fever. At the ? of any of the inhabitants of N.O. is the following.

  Brought up in the North, they 6 unclear words at an early age began with a Country House or two or three years he considers that he knows sufficient to become leader in his own book, goes with a small assortment with the ? perhaps among the Indians, here he gets found of by his own Master & a wandering life, when after earns ? finds his way to N.O. as clerk of a Steamboat  - often soon becoming its proprietor - then a Merchant when cotton is high Cotton goes down - when he is ruined  unclear inserted line  He does not despond, but takes a cool ? of his case - takes to Clerking on the Steam boat - all goes right again, becomes ambitious abandons trade for the study of the law, goes ahead - runs for Congress serves his time - has friends in law & has ? somewhere ? but the more thus he acts - marries a rich woman whose "moral character' consists principally in having a plantation and lots of negros, becomes a reputable Member of Society & 'valuable citizen' -