"Lower your boat and come
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girls on shore immediately," they cried out.
The captain,
not at all daunted, lowered his boat and went on shore. "Now, gentlemen, what do
you want with me?" said he, when S--k stepped forward, and the following
dialogue ensued:--
"Who owns that vessel, and what right have you to
harbor a d--d abolitionist?"
"I don't know who owns the vessel; I know
that I sail her, and the laws of God and man demand that I shall not pass a man
in distress, especially
buy uggs online
cheap upon the water. He protests that he is not, and never was an
abolitionist; offers to prove it if you will hear him, and only asks that you
allow him to take away his property," rejoined the captain.
"What! then
you are an abolitionist yourself?"
"No, sir. I'm a Southern-born man,
raised in Charleston, where my father was raised before me."
"So much,
so good; but just turn that d--d scoundrel ashore as quick as seventy, or
we'll
cheap uggs online tie
your vessel up and report you to the Executive Committee, and stop your getting
on more freight on the Edisto."
"That I shall not do. You should have
patience to investigate these things, and not allow your feelings to become so
excited. If I turn him and his son adrift, I'm answerable for their lives if any
accident should occur to them," rejoined the captain.
"Are you a
secessionist, captain, or what are your political principles?
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discount You seem determined to protect abolitionists. That
scoundrel has been associating with a nigger, and eating at his house ever since
he has been here."
"Yes, yes, and we'll be d--d if he isn't an
abolitionist," joined in a dozen voices, "for he dined at Bill Webster's last
Sunday on a wild-turkey. Nobody but an infernal abolitionist would dine with a
nigger."
"As for politics, I never had much to do with them, and care as
little
ugg boots discount
outlet about secession as I do about theology; but I like to see
men act reasonably. If you want any thing more of me, you will find me at
Colonel Whaley's plantation to-morrow." Thus saying, he stepped into his boat
and returned on board of his vessel. Just as he was getting under-weigh again,
whiz! whiz! whiz! came three shots, one in quick succession after the other, the
last taking effect and piercing the crown of
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uggs for women his hat, at which they retired out of sight. Fearing
a return, he worked his vessel about two miles farther up and came to anchor on
the other side of the channel, where he waited the return of the tide, and had
an opportunity to put his affrighted passengers on board a schooner that was
passing down, bound to Charleston.