You did not inquire what the man's offense was; and he may, for aught you know, have half murdered his master.

You simply see a slave being flogged, and you assault his owner.
If the Jacksons lay complaints against you, it is quite probable that you may have to leave the State.

What on earth can have influenced you to act in such a mad-brained way ?" "I did not interfere to prevent his flogging the slave, mother, but to prevent his flogging the slave's wife, which was pure wanton brutality.
It is not a question of slavery one way or the other.

Anyone has a right to interfere to put a stop to brutality.

If I saw a man brutally treating a horse or a dog, I should certainly do so; and if it is right to interfere to save a dumb animal from brutal ill-treatment, surely it must be justifiable to save a woman in the same case.