"None of your humbugging; yer
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pail of water and throwing nearly half of it over him; then passing the bucket
to the black man and ordering him to get more water and wash him down; then to
get some saltpetre and a sponge to sop his flesh.
"Well," said the
colonel, "I have seen a good deal of cruelty to slaves, but this is the most
beastly I have ever beheld. If you don't send for a doctor at once,
buy
cheap uggs online I shall report you. That man will die, to a moral
certainty. Now, you may depend upon what I say-if that man dies, you'll feel the
consequences, and I shall watch you closely."
"Sure I always takes care
of me own niggers, an' it's himself that won't be asked to do a stroke of work
for a week, but have the same to git well in," said the tyrant as the colonel
and Captain were leaving.
"God be merciful to us, and
ugg boots for
girls spare us from the savages of mankind. That scene, with its
bloody accompaniment, will haunt me through life. Do your laws allow such
things?" said the Captain, evidently excited.
"To tell the truth,
Captain," said the colonel, "our laws do not reach them. These men own a few
negroes, which, being property, they exercise absolute control over; a negro's
testimony being invalid, gives them an unlimited power to abuse and inflict
punishment; while, if a white man attempts to report such
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discount things, the cry of 'abolitionist' is raised against him,
and so many stand ready to second the cry, that he must have a peculiar position
if he does not prejudice his own interests and safety. I am sorry it is so; but
it is too true, and while it stigmatizes the system, it works against ourselves.
The evil is in the defects of the system, but the remedy is a problem with
diverse and intricate workings, which, I own, are
ugg
boots discount outlet beyond my comprehension to solve. The reason
why I spoke to you as I did when you cut the pinions from the man's hands, was
to give you a word of precaution. That is a bad man. Negroes would rather be
sold to a sugar plantation in Louisiana any time than be sold to him. He soon
works them down; in two years, fine, healthy fellows become lame, infirm, and
sickly under him; he never gives them a holiday, and
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his feelings had been in a peculiar mood at the instant you cut that cord, and
he had not labored under the fear of my presence, he would have raised a gang of
his stamp, and with the circumstance of your being a stranger, the only
alternative for your safety would have been in your leaving the city."