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Updated: June 3, 2025
All this their eyes had looked upon, earth's proudest city, wasted and thunder-scarred, lying in desolation, and the doom of oppressors traced on her ruins in the hand writing of God, glaring in letters of fire mingled with blood a blackened monument of wrath to the uttermost against the stealers of men.
Hundreds of men in the hills, including honest shepherds and the dishonest brigands who thrived on them, coal miners and wood stealers, hunters and outlaws were ready to do his bidding when the time was ripe.
Our anger vanished, and we made immediate overtures to Poll, for the purpose of establishing a firm friendship, but our advances were met with dignified coolness, while Day, who attempted to scratch the bird's head, got severely bitten for his pains. "D n the beast!" muttered the shepherd, rubbing his finger. "That's right swear! D n it, why don't you swear? Sheep stealers! Who robs people?
A similar case was that of John Walker, an Appalachicola chief, who wrote to Thompson under date July 28, 1835: "I am induced to write you in consequence of the depredations making and attempted to be made upon my property, by a company of Negro stealers, some of whom are from Columbus, Ga., and have connected themselves with Brown and Douglass.... I should like your advice how I am to act.
We are neither negro stealers nor negro catchers," was easily construed by subordinate officers to justify the practice of either course. Inter arma silent leges. For the present, Butler was instructed not to surrender such fugitives, but to employ them in suitable labor, and leave the question of their final disposition for future determination.
"Your faither wouldn't have let his folk make a show of themselves like that." "They 'm mostly chicken stealers nowadays," declared Will; "an' so surly as dogs if you tell 'em to go 'bout theer business." "Not to none o' your name never," declared his mother. "No gypsy's gwaine to forget my husband in his son's time.
All this their eyes had looked upon; earth's proudest city, wasted and thunder-scarred, lying in desolation, and the doom of oppressors traced on her ruins in the hand-writing of God, glaring in letters of fire mingled with blood a blackened monument of wrath to the uttermost against the stealers of men.
If she had known that a speedy automobile had met the stealers of the location papers in mid-desert that afternoon and rushed them into Blue Creek she might have given up in despair. But, she knew nothing of Red Bill's ruse, and imagined that the trip with the stolen papers had been made on horseback all the way.
I listened to this atrocious sentence with horror, then gasped out: "We are not stealers of men, O King, we are freers of men, as Tom and Jerry of your own people could tell you." "Who are Tom and Jerry?" he asked, indifferently. "Well, it does not matter, for doubtless they are liars like the rest of you. I have spoken.
I hear the rustlers have been after them. So get a move on." "What are rustlers?" asked Alice, who seldom let pass a chance to acquire information. "Cattle stealers, Miss. Ornery, mean men who trade on the rights of others. But we'll snub 'em if we get hold of 'em!" The branding of the big steer was quickly done and then the restraining ropes were cast off so that it might get up.
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