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of being his own man, that Zeke began to ‘feel his oats,’ as the saying is. He said to the magistrate, ‘May it please your honor to grant me a warrant against Mr. Godwin?
He violently seized me by the collar; thus committing assault and battery on a free citizen of these United States.’
Friend Hopper told him he had better be satisfied with that day's work, and let Mr. Godwin go home.
He yielded to this expostulation, though he might have made considerable trouble by insisting upon retaliation.
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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