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Updated: June 14, 2025
When I feels dem five hundred dollars in my pocket I des swells up lak I gwine ter bust. I'se dat proud o' myse'f an' my ole marster dat gimme a start. Lordee, sah, hit's des gwine ter be fun fer me ter git long an' I mak' my fortune right here. Ye see ef I don't " Lee smiled indulgently. "Watch out you don't lose the little one I gave you." "Yassah, I got hit all sewed up in my close."
Now, I want you to walk straight out of this court and behave yourself. Don't ever steal anything. Get something to do! Don't steal, do you hear? Don't touch anything that doesn't belong to you! Don't come back here! If you do, I'll send you to the penitentiary, sure." "Yassah! No, sah, I won't," replied Ackerman, nervously. "I won't take nothin' more that don't belong tuh me."
"No, sah," said Sam, bowing and smiling benignantly, "but he done tole me to say, when you and Miss Alison come, hit was to make no diffunce, dat you bofe was to have supper heah. And I'se done cooked it yassah. Will you kindly step into the liba'y, suh, and Miss Alison? Dar was a lady 'crost de city, Marse Ho'ace said yassah."
"Dey ain't no plume in his hat an' dey ain't no banjo man wid him. Nasah. Tain't Gin'l Stuart." "All right. Pull up a stool." "Yassah!" Sam unfolded a camp stool and placed it at the table. A sentinel approached and called: "Senator William C. Rives of the Confederate Congress to see General Lee." Taylor rose. "Show him in."
The black man liked the looks of his judge and he threw off all embarrassment his situation had produced with the first glance at the kindly eyes gazing at him over the rims of those spectacles. "Well, Julius Cæsar Thornton, this is a serious charge they have lodged against you?" "Yassah, dat's what dey say." "You went forth like a man to fight for your country, didn't you?" "Na, sah!"
Des try ter lay de weight er yo' han' on my marster er missis, an' I'll lan' yo' in de middle of er spell er sickness' " "And they took you prisoner." "Yassah." "I see." "Dey starts ter shoot me fust! But den dey say I wuzn't wuf de powder an' lead hit'ud take ter kill me." "And you escaped?" "Na sah, not den. Dey make me go wid 'em, wher er no.
Lee looked up with a smile. "Too tired now. Eat it for me, Sam " Sam turned quickly. "Yassah. I do de bes' I kin fur ye." As Sam went back to the kitchen he motioned to a ragged soldier who stood with his wife and little girl gazing at the General. "Dar he is. Go right up an' tell him." Sweeney approached Lee timidly. The wife and girl hung back. He tried to bow and salute at the same time.
Bentley, "I have brought home a gentleman for supper." "Yassah, Misteh Ho'ace. I was jest agwine to open up de blin's." He lifted the wire screens and flung back the shutters, beamed on the rector as he relieved him of his hat, and noiselessly retired.
"I've told you boys for the last three weeks that I won't stand this. You don't have to go to school to me if you don't want to. But if you join my school you've got to study. Do you hear me?" "Yassah!" came the answer in solid chorus. "Well, you'll do more than hear me to-night. You're going to heed what I say. I'm going to thrash the whole school." Sam broke into a loud laugh.
He paused and turned toward Sam. "Come here, Sam." The young negro rolled his eyes in excited wonder about the room and laughed softly at nothing as he approached the table. "Yassah, Marse Robert." "How old are you, Sam?" "Des twenty, sah." "I had meant to wait until you were twenty-one for this, but I have decided to act to-day. You will arrange to leave here and go with us as far as New York."
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