It isn't complimental, that's a fact.

'One is a serious offence, I mean, sais he; 'the other is not.

We don't want to sarch; we only want to look a slaver in the face, and see whether he is a free and enlightened American or not.

If he is, the _flag of liberty_ protects him and _his slaves_; if he ain't, it don't protect him, nor them nother.' "Then he did a leadin' article on slavery, and a paragraph on non-intervention, and spoke a little soft sawder about America, and wound up by askin' me if he had made himself onderstood.
"'Plain as a boot-jack,' sais I.
"When that was over, he took breath.

He sot back on his chair, put one leg over the other, and took a fresh departur' agin.
"'I have read your books, Mr.Slick,' said he, 'and read 'em, too, with great pleasure.