Be me soul, but I'll go back to Ireland.' "I could not help expressing my astonishment to the superintendent, repeating the Irishman's words, 'I thought only niggers could be knocked over in this country.' "'Niggers!' said the superintendent, 'I guess if you had to deal with Irishmen, you'd find yourself obliged to knock 'em down.' "'But don't the laws protect them ?' I asked.
"'Laws! why railroads have to be made, and have to be made the right way.
I aint afraid of the laws.

I think no more of knocking an Irishman over, sir, than I do of eating my dinner.

One is as necessary as the other.' "Now," continued Mr.Chapman, "if an Abolitionist sees a slave knocked over, he runs home to tell his mammy; it's enough to bring fire and brimstone, and hail, and earthquakes on the whole country.

A man must have a black skin or his sorrows can never reach the hearts of these gentlemen.
They had better look about at home.

There is wrong enough there to make a fuss about." "Well," said the Englishman, "you had both better come back to the mother country.