"It will be all the worse for that poor beggar afterward; still I could not help it.
I wonder will there be any row about it.

I don't much expect there will, the Jacksons don't stand well now, and this would not do them any good with the people round; besides I don't think Jackson would like to go into court to complain of being thrashed by a fellow a head shorter than himself.

It's blackguards like him who give the Abolitionists a right to hold up the slave-owners as being tyrants and brutes." The Jacksons were newcomers in Virginia.

Six years before, the estate, of which the Cedars, as their place was called, formed a part, was put up for sale.

It was a very large one, and having been divided into several portions to suit buyers, the Cedars had been purchased by Jackson, who, having been very successful as a storekeeper at Charleston, had decided upon giving up the business and leaving South Carolina, and settling down as a landowner in some other State.