hand. He "thought of Webster and the Fugitive Slave Law."
Now this negro was, just as likely as not, one of those characters whom
we call jail-birds. If so, and he had lived at the North, instead of
branding-iron and stripes, he might have had parti-colored pants, and
manacles, and a record of ten or twenty years in the state's prison. But
because he ran away from the South, he straightway became, as a matter
of course, a martyr and a saint. Perhaps he was, truly, a saint; and
perhaps he was not.
Looking out of the window in a hotel the other day, we saw two white
men leading up a black man with a leather bridle around his neck.
"Here, Hattie," said your Uncle, "here is slavery; now you have it in
full bloom."
The poor fellow was crying and protesting and begging to be released.
Your Uncle stepped out and spoke to a very respectable gentleman whom he
met on the piazza. He could not refrain from expressing some feeling at
the sight of a fellow-creature so literally "reduced to the level of the
brutes." I did not hear the whole of the conversation, for my attention
was diverted by two roosters who just then flew at each other and were
assailed by a troop of black urchins who tried to scare them apart,
pulling their tail-feathers and uttering ludicrous cries.
"You are from the North, sir, I take it," said the gentleman, in reply
to your Uncle.
"I am, sir," said your Uncle. "Do you often bridle your slaves in this
way, in these parts? I am seeking for information on the subject of
slavery."
"I shall be happy to give you any," said the gentleman. "I am here as a
magistrate."
"I am one at home," said my husband.
"One of these white men who led the negro," said the gentleman, "was
riding on horseback, and was attracted to a by-place by the screams of a
child, and found this black man attempting violence upon a black girl
ten years old. He knocked the fellow down and held him, and called for
help. A white man who came up took the bridle from the horse, to secure
the vill
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