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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
eat big fellow over in a sunny corner of the deck had been an attentive listener to the conversation, and whenever the replies of his fellow slave gave him peculiar pleasure, or coincided with his views, a grin would spread clear across his face, and thinking that he might be inclined to talk I approached him and put the question, "Well, Sam, what can you do in a fight?" A.--Run, sah, when Bucra man come widda gun, " and at the same time tipping his hat and scraping his foot, asked " if Massa please give him chaw tobacco." Several negroes in sotto voce to each other signified their disapprobation of the fellow's conduct and reply by calling him "Yahoo nigger," Their respect, however, for the presence of white persons prevented any other expression of contempt, In this lot of stout fellows there was not one badly clothed or under-fed. They were all above the medium height of the white man; strong, healthy — though rough and dull — such as swarm the "yard" of every large