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Certainly he was not a very salable redemptioner with his three little motherless children about his knees. But at length, some fifteen days after the arrival of the ships, Frank Schuber met him on the old customhouse wharf with his little ones and was told by him that he, Müller, was going to Attakapas.
But the redemptioner could only be held for a certain time, and, if his master was not a good man, he would be apt to get out of him all the work that he could during the time of his service, and to give him no more food or clothing than was absolutely necessary. After a time there were laws made to protect the redemptioners.
"A barrister," quoth he, "is as good as any one else. And if my father came out a redemptioner, and worked his way, so had old Mr. Dulany. Our family at home was the equal of his." All of which was true, and more. He would deride Patty for sewing and baking, vowing that they had servants enough now to do the work twice over.
Like them he came an emigrant under the Dutch flag, and like them his passage was paid in New Orleans by his sale as a redemptioner. A printer bought his services for two years and a half. His story is the good old one of courage, self-imposed privations, and rapid development of talents. From printing he rose to journalism, and from journalism passed to the bar.
Miller had never taken the Müller family or any part of them to Attakapas or knowingly bought a redemptioner. He accounted for his possession of the plaintiff thus: In August, 1822, one Anthony Williams, being or pretending to be a negro-trader and from Mobile, somehow came into contact with Mr. John Fitz Miller in New Orleans.
Every redemptioner would have it he is a gentleman, when he's only caught the trick by waiting on them." "But if I buy my time you " "How 'd come ye by the money?" "I I think I could get the amount." "Ay. I doubt not ye know how money 's to be got by hook or by crook! And no doubt ye want your freedom to drill more rebels to the king. Ye'll not get it from me, so there 's an end on 't."
The Indians were driven off; and the next day David Comee was found lying in the water of the river meadow, scalped, and stripped of his armour and clothes. Another Scotch redemptioner, named William Munroe, who was shipped to this country in the John and Sara, settled at Cambridge Fields or Lexington.
Moreover, I ask your pardon for saying what else I did; 't was my tongue and not my heart which spoke." The insult being atoned, Janice came back. "You said you would tell me your history." "But then that was when I hoped a fool I was." The redemptioner paused, and then took a quick step toward Janice with an eager look on his face and his hand outstretched.
Of course, he was made the subject of great imposition; for the captain would naturally desire to get as large a sum of money as possible for each redemptioner, and therefore would be perfectly willing to sell him for a long term.
Meredith," answered the aide, quietly; "we pay for it." "In paper money that won't be worth a penny in the pound, come a month." "That remains to be seen," responded the officer. "'T is quite of a piece that a runaway redemptioner should return with other thieves and rob his master!" fumed the owner of Greenwood.
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