The American Question, And How to Settle It
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That's the way it appears to me, and I'd rather get out of these parts before it comes. Then I've another objection to it. I don't like to have slaves about me. Now, I tell a nigger to go and feed your horse ; I never know if he's done it unless I go and see ; and if he didn't know I would go and see, and would whip him if I found he hadn't fed * Olmsted, vol. ii. p. 48.
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him, would he feed him ? He'd let him starve.
I 've got as good niggers as anybody, but I never ca...n depend od them ; they will lie, and they will steal, and take advantage of me in every way they dare. Of course they will, if they are slaves. But lying and stealing are not the worst of it. I've got a family of children, and I don't like to have such degraded beings round my house while they are growing up. I know what the consequences are to children, of growing up among slaves." Mr. Olmsted asked him if he could safely utter such sentiments among the people of this district.
" I've been told a hundred times I should be killed if I were not more prudent in expressing my opinions, but, when it comes to killing, I'm as good as the next man, and they know it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
That's the way it appears to me, and I'd rather get out of these parts before it comes. Then I've another objection to it. I don't like to have slaves about me. Now, I tell a nigger to go and feed your horse ; I never know if he's done it unless I go and see ; and if he didn't know I would go and see, and would whip him if I found he hadn't fed * Olmsted, vol. ii. p. 48.
216 THE AMERICAN QUESTION.
him, would he feed him ? He'd let him starve.
I 've got as good niggers as anybody, but I never ca...n depend od them ; they will lie, and they will steal, and take advantage of me in every way they dare. Of course they will, if they are slaves. But lying and stealing are not the worst of it. I've got a family of children, and I don't like to have such degraded beings round my house while they are growing up. I know what the consequences are to children, of growing up among slaves." Mr. Olmsted asked him if he could safely utter such sentiments among the people of this district.
" I've been told a hundred times I should be killed if I were not more prudent in expressing my opinions, but, when it comes to killing, I'm as good as the next man, and they know it.
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