His eyes expanded visibly at this information, and he inquired, with some earnestness—
"Do you know what would have been done with you if you had been detected?"
"I have my suspicions, but, of course, do not know. Do you?"
"Yes; you would have been hung!"
"Do you think so?"
"I am sure of it. You would not have had a shadow of chance for your life!"
My friend knew the Secessionists thoroughly, and his evidence was doubtless trustworthy. I felt no inclination to test it by repeating the experiment.
A Mania for Southern Manufacturing.
The establishment of domestic manufactures was always a favorite theme throughout the South; but the manufactures themselves continued very rudimentary. The furniture dealers, for example, made a pretense of making their own wares. They invariably showed customers through their workshops, and laid great stress upon their encouragement of southern industry; but they really received seven-eighths of their furniture from the North, having it delivered at back-doors, under cover of the night.