It would be human nature, resisting under the infliction of pain.

We catch hold of a dentist's hand when he is drawing a tooth.
Perhaps there may be found some moral law against doing so!" "But we are apt," said I, "to take these exceptional cases, and make a rule that includes them and all others.

I have been present when intelligent gentlemen, Northerners and Southerners, have discussed this subject in the most friendly manner, though with great earnestness.

Once I remember we spent an evening discussing the subject.

I will, if you please, tell you about the conversation.
"I must take you, then, to an old mansion at the South, around which, and at such a distance from each other as to reveal a fine prospect, stood a growth of noble elms, a lawn spreading itself out before the house, and the large hall, or entry, serving for a tea-room, where seven or eight gentlemen, and as many ladies were assembled.
"A Southern physician, who had no slaves, took the ground that all the slaves had a right to walk off whenever they pleased.