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81 took out none from you.na
"Some irregularity in the mailsf presume, "
mildly supoested Mr. Halifax

mildly suggested MIR. Halifax.
"You are very presuming, indeed sir, if you
presume anything of the Sort returned the
lawyer with bitter laugh and frown, rising
as he did so, and stalking liEspa pendulum,
back and forth, from one end OF, be little office
TO the other, as if he wanted to get out. 1T
was read and stopped in the Off e. Ipresume /;
as my letters and other peoples Rave been be-
fore, and will be again |" He ,lused an in
slant, as if for redress, before Mr. Halifax.
Nice impression we must ma upon stran-
gers" continued he, resuming IS strides, and
measuring off the sanded fooRa tn his long
legs like pair of compasses. 'Abolitionist,
sir?" said he, with another pr u'e, this time
before Edward
81 vow / don't know what am F" cried
Edward, starting up in his tul asand shifting
his forehead in utter desperation A maniac,
by all rights, ought to be. All can answer
for is, that twenty days ago, at ,fy rate, was
neither lunatic, nor fanati, ior anything
but peaceable, respectable ci1vn in Boston,
sitting in my own parlor, and s@ing my own
fire. In came letter, to say t. : my younger
brother, positively the finest and fost honorable
young fellow / ever saw in ne life, who had
been travelling hereabouts, had taen taken up
on suspicion of having stolen I negro, by a
man who had lost one. The aor youngster
might have got himself out of = rms way as
well as not, but was taken up ID the very act
of stopping to save the life of er3 of the very
party who arrested him, who VS. bleeding to
death by himself in the woods. o. course, then,
| came to do what could for hif., anybody
would have done in my place z 1t expected
to behave and be treated like : Gentleman, as
usual, NEEDLE with nobody an have nobody
NEEDLE with me, pay any sum Z z was wanted,
and get my brother and myself s!t of the State
again as fast as | could and jlEi res won't take
bail except from natives of the. ate; and ma
tives won't give it and lawye9si won't plead !;
and magistrates won't put dawn riots and
young men won't eat my din lfts, and insult
me for inviting them and peoyl | don't know
speak to me and threaten mem the street !;
and the very children boot atstly heels and
postmasters won't send letters ;.s i'd by Jupiter,
if this sort of thing is to go oasmuch longer,
I'm in a very fair way TO wish 81 country, and
the Union, and the whole worl abolished, and
myself into the bargain 2" Ed Z I'd had scarce
ly finished, before he felt that chad been be-
trayed into rather plaintive, Il dignifed, and
ludicrous exposition of his pteees plight and
the discordant, mocking lapfe which Mr..
Broadstone repeated upon hearlt it, increased
his wrath. With hasty bow q Mr.. Halifax
he caught up his hat but BIO dstone thrust
himself between Edward and lie door, seized
his hand, and ground his knu lies within his
own sinewy palm, with such 4 grip that he
was forced to squeeze back sEin in sef.de-
fence with such another, that saving shaken
hands collectively, they were e. G, obliged to do
so singly and severally. =.
"Say no more! I'm your, .ian. l should
have had to do your business 1T any rate, for
the honor of the State, but c6.fldn't have done
it much to my own, if you'd beet an Abolition
list of the common Sort for bate em to that
degree that the sight of one acInally affects my
reason. As to thinking, thoul !, 'twould be a
blessing to have everything md everybody
abolished-except Mr.. Halifax Esre-under the
present circumstances, / go wi&a you from my
heart-whenever l sit down d think about
them, which venture to do iI-t as often as
can't help it, and no oftenerys Where's the
honor of the South? Where's que good fellow
ship? Where's the hospitality q Where's the
BY Jove, sir, within the last fe@f years, when I
look about me, don't know sly country, and
l don't know my neighbors; fn1 don't know
myself The earth must havs settled, / be-
lieve, and hells come through 'to the top. |
don't wonder you're astonshet, a Northerner
coming here for the first tims; though as to
that-you'll have to allow ils to speak my
mind, as you did yours-tht'a Jorths just as
much to blame in the matter az the South. If
we have built up PandemonuE with our cotton
and sugar, and pounded humslssesh and bones,
you brought your confounded & sh to the work,
for the mortar that stuck it t.r,ether. 1t was
so close to our eyes that we cesildn't see quite
how ugly and horrible it was Gut you were fur
ther off, and might have known better, if the
gold spectacles you look through hadn't been
binders. AS for the doings around here now,
they are bad enough to mortity Lucifer and dis
grace Gomorrah; and if we can't have Slavery
without EN-, why, then I'm perfectly prepared
to say, with you, or anybody that has the soul of
gentleman, Slavery be - He saw the cer-
gyman vince, and, turning upon him in his Pc
cnliar way, calculated triumphantly and with
tremendous emphasis, "conaemned-that's I'M
exceptionable, believe. Oh, hang it all It's
enough to make st. Paul swear He'd rip out
with his 'Anathema Maranathal quick enough,
if he was here; and l wish, for my part, he was,
though he swore at me. Anyhow, l should
know right from wrong, then; and now |
don't"
The clergyman sighed deeply, and, after beg
ging both of the gentlemen to give him their
company at dinner, went home to finish his
sermon. Keep Slavery confined to your
blacks, gentlemen then continued Mr.. Broad
stone, resuming his discourse and his seat, L" l
say to my neighbors, sometimes, when they
dare to interfere with me, and to come telling
me what may do, and what l mayn't-' and
won't say it's bad thing, if you treat 'em well,
which, by the way, you know you dontj but
don't try to make white men slaves or, if you
1 do, be warned in time, and don't commence
with trying it on to mel But declare, I'm
beginning to think it's just like the leprosy sir
Let your fellow-creatures at your side be afiict
ed with it, and, before you think it's common
cling to spread over you" He jumped up again,
and again striding away as if he had thou
sand miles to walk in thousand hours, was
| continuing his harangue when hammering
sound was heard on the other side of the door,
and tiny voice Cried "Bopa! Bopa!" A
| softening change instantly passed over the
whole man. He stopped, smiled, Unattached the
4 door, hid behind it, aud cried, I" Coop, Nelly"
| A beautiful little child toddled in, and with
shrieks of laughter aud pretended fright was
caught in his arms. Handling her as if she
had been made of blown egg-shells, he set her
up. and stood holding her upon the top of the
high stool, quite absorbed in her and in the
soothing occupation of tickling, but taking care
not to scratch her apple-cheeks with his rough
whiskers. Edward then quietly, but heartily,
made his acknowledgements, and, rather as a
matter Of form than fact,ta the close, hoped
that coming to Tadnior to manage the case
would put Mr.. Broadstone to no inconvenience
or trouble.
GAS to inconvenience or trouble, can't an
| swer for its causing or not causing any; but
whether, if it Does the inconvenience is like to
be confined to myself you shall be the judge"
said he Il 60 warmly dressed sometimes on
such occasions" He gently placed the child
on the floor, told her to run TO her mothers and
took from clothes press heavy greatcoat,
which he buttoned up to his chin. In front, it
had six pockets on each size. Beginning with
the upper one on the left Eand, he took from it
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