Whenever they get into trouble and want help in a trade, or a fight, or a argument, why, they come south!" Doctor Jamieson calmly took snuff.

"Time was, when we first came in as a state," said he, "that we didn't take these attempts of the North to regulate us any too tamely." [Illustration: Doctor Jamieson calmly took snuff.] "I don't know about that," commented Judge Clayton.

"Your 'moral law,' your 'higher law,' gentlemen, I don't find in my legal reading.

It was personal liberty that took every man west, but we've stood and stickled for the actual law, and we've been robbed under it: robbed as a state, and now they want to rob us as individuals.

Gentlemen, these men are carrying off a girl of mine worth, say fifteen hundred to two thousand.