These men seem to have taken the girl in without hesitation.

They don't intend to stand by any compromise, at least.

The question is, what are we going to do about it?
We can't stand here and see our property taken away by armed invaders, in this way.

And yet--" "It looks," he added slowly, a moment later, "just as Thomas Jefferson said long ago, as though this country had the wolf by the ear, and could neither hold it nor let it go.

For myself--and setting aside this personal matter, which is at worst only the loss of a worthless girl--I admit I fear that this slavery wolf is going to mean trouble--big trouble--both for the South and the North, before long." "Douglas, over there in Illinois, hasn't brought up anything in Congress yet that's stuck," broke in the ever-ready Jones.