Flashy's thinking of entering politics, but this noble ambition soon leads him into a double-dealing card game with Disraeli, where someone else is doing the cheating for a change! Forced to flee London, Flash lands on a boat bound for America, but discovers that he's really booked passage aboard a slaver headed for Africa and then New Orleans. Before this American odyssey ends, our man Flash will meet up with an interesting assortment of Yanks, from a hothouse madame who can make magnolias bloom to a certain young Mr. Lincoln...