They cannot stand alone, they have no faculty for rising,--then, if one of them finds foothold, the ground is undermined beneath him.

If a head is seen above the crowd, the ladder is jerked away, and he is trampled into the dust where he is fallen.

If he stays in the position to which Anglo-Saxon assigns him, he is a worthless nigger; if he protests against it, he is an insolent nigger; if he rises above it, he is a nigger not to be tolerated at all,--to be crushed and buried speedily." "Now, Willie, 'no more of this, an thou lovest me.' I came not out to-day to listen to an abolition harangue, nor a moral homily, but to have a good time, to be civil and merry withal, if you will allow it.

Of course you don't like Franklin's discharge, and of course you have done something to compensate him.

I know--you have found him another place.
No,--you couldn't do that?
"No, I couldn't." "Well, you've settled him somewhere,--confess." "He has some work for the present; some copying for me, and translating, for this unfortunate is a scholar, you know." "Very good; then let it rest.