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will have him, dead or alive.
If he dies, it's nobody's loss but mine.’
As he had the mayor's warrant for taking him, the keeper dared not incur the responsibility of disobeying his requisitions.
He convened the inspectors for consultation; and they all agreed that any attempt to remove the wounded man would render them accessory to his death.
They laid the case before the mayor, who ordered that the prisoner should remain undisturbed till the physician pronounced him out of danger.
When the master was informed of this, he swore that nobody had any right to interfere between him and his property.
He cursed the mayor, threatened to prosecute the keeper, and was in a furious rage with every body.
Meanwhile, the sympathy of Isaac T. Hopper was strongly excited in the case, and he obtained a promise from the physician that he would let him know if there was any chance that the slave would recover.
Contrary to all expectation, he lingered along day after day; and in about a week, the humane physician signified to Friend Hopper, and Joseph Price, one of the inspectors, that a favorable result might now be anticipated.
Of course, none of them considered it a duty to inform the master of their hopes.
They undertook to negotiate for the purchase of the prisoner, and obtained him for a moderate price.
The owner was fully impressed with the
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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