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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To John G. Whittier. (search)
eply, but motioned to the slave who was driving his barouche to deliver the paper to the soldier. The slave dismounted and gave the sentinel the required pass. The sentinel seized him, and by a quick motion set him twirling down the hill, at the bottom of which were marshalled the United States forces. Now you can turn back, said the sentinel. But I obtained an order allowing me to pass. How dare you hinder me? Where is your order? My servant just gave it to you. Oh, that was an order to pass only one, and he has already gone with it. The Virginian swore roundly, and called vociferously to his slave to come back. The bewildered slave attempted to do so, but the mischievous sentinel put his musket across the path. Show the paper! shouted the master. The slave did so. The sentinel read it, and coolly replied, This is a pass from Norfolk. You must obtain another to go to Norfolk. And so the haughty Southerner was obliged to guide his own horses back again whence he came.