This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...swing for shootin' him." "That's my affair; we'll settle your account first," repliedthe colonel. The darky looked undecidedly at his master and then at the overseer, who, overcome by weakness, had sunk again to the floor. The little humanity in him was evidently struggling with his hatred of Moye and his desire for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...swing for shootin' him." "That's my affair; we'll settle your account first," repliedthe colonel. The darky looked undecidedly at his master and then at the overseer, who, overcome by weakness, had sunk again to the floor. The little humanity in him was evidently struggling with his hatred of Moye and his desire for revenge, when the old nurse yelled out from among the crowd, "Gib him fifty lashes, Massa Davy, and den you wash him down! Be a man, Jake, and say datl" Jake still hesitated; and when, at last, he was about to speak, the eye of the octoroon caught his, and chained the words to his tongue, as if by magnetic power. "Do you say that, boys?" said the colonel, turning to the other negroes. "Shall he have fifty lashes?" "Yas, massa, fifty lashes; gib de ole debble fifty lashes!" shouted about fifty voices. "He shall have them," quietly said the master. The mad shout that followed, which was more like the yell of demons than the cry of men, seemed to arouse Moye to a sense of his real position. Springing to his feet, he gazed wildly around; then, sinking on his knees before the octoroon, and clutching the folds of her dress, he shrieked, "Save me, good lady, save me! As you hope for mercy, save me!" Not a muscle of her face moved; but, turning to the excited crowd, she mildly said, "Fifty lashes would kill him. Jake does not say that. Your master leaves it to him, and he will not whip a dying man--will you, Jake?" "No, ma'am--not--not ef you gwo agin it," replied the negro, with very evident reluctance. "But he whipped Sam, ma'am, when Sam war nearer dead than he am," said Jim, whose station as houseservant allowed him a certain freedom of speech. &...
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