Uncle Jesse.—“Well, Deacon Atwood, I’ve always been a good friend to you, and I’ve told you some things that the colored people were going to do that was wrong, and we have been pretty confidential a great many times; but I just tell you, sir, if you go to violating the law, then I’ll back down. I will not stick for anybody that will violate the law. My motto is to punish every man, white or black, that will violate the law.”
CHAPTER XIII.
THE SCALLAWAG.
“Get thee gone!
Death and destruction dog thee at the heels.
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If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,
And live with Richard from the reach of hell.
Go, hie thee from this slaughter-house
Lest thou increase the number of the dead.”
—King Richard III.
When Col. Baker ordered Mrs. Marmor to leave her home, she would not ask shelter in the house of her nearest neighbor—that most Christian Jew, Dan Lemfield—lest her presence might jeopardise the safety of her husband; and she stood upon the doorsteps with her infant in her arms, and little Louie beside her, gazing up and down the street in utter dismay, and not knowing whither to flee. Only a few steps at her left was the drill-room, the centre about which all the warlike preparations were arranged, and every dwelling in the beleaguered square, except her own and Lemfield’s, was the abode of at least one colored family, and therefore clearly unsafe.