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among my boys, and it will not be a particularly quiet business getting away any of my fellows, if they know it, I’ll promise you.” “O! certainly, by all means, mum! of course. But I’ll tell you, I’m in a devil of a hurry, and shall want to know, as soon as possible, what I may depend on,” said he, rising and putting on his overcoat. “Well, call up this evening, between six and seven, and you shall have my an- swer,” said Mr. Shelby, and the trader bowed himself out of the apartment. “I’d like to have been able to kick the fellow down the steps,” said he to him- self, as he saw the door fairly closed, “with his impudent assurance; but he knows how much he has me at advantage. If anybody had ever said to me that I should sell Tom down south to one of those rascally traders, I should have said, ‘Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?’ And now it must come, for aught I see. And Eliza’s child, too! I know that I shall have some fuss with my wife about that; and, for that matter, about Tom, too. So much for being in debt,- heigho! The fellow sees his advantage, and means to push it.” Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky. The general prevalence of agricultural pursuits of a quiet and gradual nature, not requiring those periodic seasons of hurry and pressure that are called for in the business of more southern districts, makes the task of the negro a more healthful and reasonable one; while the master, content with a more gradual style of acquisition, has not those temptations to hardheartedness which always over- come frail human nature when the prospect of sudden and rapid gain is weighed |
