...t, what is the birthright of freedom, after all, compared to a mess of pottage? In return, we should get rid of Yankees, and have plenty to eat and drink. Some of us might have a chance to become Earls , or even Dukes — a great consolation to their posterity, who could exhibit patents of nobility almost as old as those of the aristocracy of Hayti. Poor, forlorn, deserted foundlings that ...