To render Morgan quiet and passive during this jaunt, he was plied with liquor and laudanum. He was taken to the Fort and lodged in the Magazine, which had been prepared for his reception. In the course of that night he was taken across the river, and remained in charge, by the shore...
The only ornamented buildings of our port were, the pigmy rum colored tavern and the two little white stores, which, as indicative of their heaviest business, the liquor trade, should have been of the same dye. How beautifully these painted edifices loomed up among the scattering trees of ...