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"Ugh!" exclaimed Cyd, with a thrill of horror. "We have no time to spare," added Dan, briskly. "Bring up another fifty-six, Quin." The weight was brought up and tied to the corpse of the slave-hunter, as it lay in the boat.
The process which had transformed the fine, open-natured, wholesome-hearted young Englishman into a slave-hunter, the confederate of ruthless cut-throats and desperadoes, had, in truth, been such as to engender the reverse of pleasant thoughts. Yet, that he had come to this was rather the fault of circumstances than the fault of Holmes.
Without replying to this suggestion, the slave-hunter ordered the colored man to strip, that his back might be examined by the court. Friend Hopper objected to such a proceeding. "Thou hast produced no evidence that the man thou hast arrested is a slave," said he. "Thou and he are on the same footing before this court. We have as good a right to examine thy back, as are have to examine his."
He would have turned away at this point, but the man pulled a card from his pocket and presented it to him. Guy glanced it over with interest: C. Manuel Torres, Trader at Aden and Berbera. "A vile Portuguese slave-hunter," he thought to himself. "Well, Mr. Torres" he said. "I am sorry that I have no cards about me, but my name in Chutney." The Portuguese softly whispered the name once or twice.
That part of the Constitution which provides for the surrender of fugitive slaves, I never have supported and never will. I will join in no slave-hunt. My door shall stand open, as it has long stood, for the panting and trembling victim of the slave-hunter. When I shut it against him, may God shut the door of his mercy against me!
By virtue of this law, freemen have been seized and dragged into perpetual slavery and should I be seized by a slave-hunter in any part of the country where I am not personally known, neither the Constitution nor laws of the United States would shield me from the same destiny.
If thou dost, it will be at thy peril." After the slave-hunter had vented his rage in a torrent of abuse, the constable proposed to speak a few words in private. With many friendly professions, he acknowledged that they had no search-warrant. "The gentleman was about to obtain one from the mayor," said he; "but I wished to save your feelings.
The people of Northern Illinois, who are in future to direct the policy of the State, are mostly from Western New York and New England. "Coelum, non animum mutant." They bring with them their unconquered prejudices in favor of freedom; their great commercial city is as strongly anti-slavery as Worcester or Syracuse, and has been for years an unsafe spot for a slave-hunter.
So far as Zobeir was concerned, there were two counterbalancing considerations; on the one hand, Evelyn Baring now declared that he was in favour of the appointment; but, on the other hand, would English public opinion consent to a man, described by Gordon himself as 'the greatest slave-hunter who ever existed', being given an English subsidy and the control of the Sudan?
She hastily set aside her tub, wiped up the floor, and thinking there was nothing in the house good enough for her benefactor, she went out to purchase some little luxuries. Hill recommended a particular shop, and proposed to accompany her. The slave-hunter, who had been left in the street, received a private signal, and the moment she entered the shop, he pounced upon her.
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