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Monsieur C.C. ROBIN, a highly intelligent French gentleman, who resided in Louisiana from 1802 to 1806, and published a volume of travels, gives the following testimony to the over-working of the slaves there: "I have been a witness, that after the fatigue of the day, their labors have been prolonged several hours by the light of the moon; and then, before they could think of rest, they must pound and cook their corn; and yet, long before day, an implacable scold, whip in hand, would arouse them from their slumbers.
The ladies glanced at him affectionately and deferentially; he was gently scolded at times for over-working himself, the sleepiness which nowadays frequently overtook him in all sorts of places being attributed to excess of genius and zeal.
No, the letter was only a bluff. Snark would not run the risk of publicly smirching himself for who would believe his protestations of innocency? losing his license at the bar together with the certainty of a small fortune, for the sake of over-working a tool that might snap in his hand or cut both ways. So Garrison decided to disregard the letter.
"Come," he said, "we have been over-working too much strain, and now the reaction. Keep this rubbish to yourself, or they will lock you up in an asylum." "Certainly, Aylward, certainly. But can't you get rid of that beastly image?" "Not on any account, Haswell, even if it haunts us all day.
"No," her face clouded sadly, "he is over-working. Oh, you don't know how sorry I am," she began, and faltered. "Sorry? for him?" "Yes. And for you. And for m and because things have come around like this." "Let's not be sorry just now," said Steering. "Won't you, please, talk about glad things now. It's so pleasant to have you here."
As a matter of fact, he was thoroughly out of health, as well as out of spirits; he had been over-working himself in London, and was scarcely out of the doctor's hands before he went to Scotland; then the shock of his brother's death and the harshness of his mother toward him had contributed their share to the utter disorganisation of his faculties.
But it is almost equally important to remember that without good laws it is also impossible to reach the proper solution. It is idle to hold that without good laws evils such as child labor, as the over-working of women, as the failure to protect employees from loss of life or limb, can be effectively reached, any more than the evils of rebates and stock-watering can be reached without good laws.
'Don't take me far, he said abruptly, as they started. 'I have not got the energy for it. I have been over-working, and must go away. 'I have been sure of it for some time, said Elsmere warmly. 'You ought to have a long rest. But mayn't I know, Mr. Wendover, before you take it, what this great task is you have been toiling at? Remember, you have never told me a word of it.
'He won't come any more, said Edith. 'Isn't he afraid you will be rushing out to the office too soon over-working? Oh well, Edith will see that you take care of yourself. Where's little Archie? 'Go and see him in the nursery, said Bruce, almost in a whisper. 'I can't stand a lot of people in here. 'Archie's out, said Edith. There was another ring.
Channing, of Boston, who resided some time in Virginia, shows that the over-working of slaves, to such an extent as to abridge life, and cause a decrease of population, is not confined to the far south and south-west. "I heard of an estate managed by an individual who was considered as singularly successful, and who was able to govern the slaves without the use of the whip.
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