The things we do!

"You can see the intent of the North now plainly enough.
Indiana openly says she's going to make the Fugitive Slave Act
impossible of enforcement. All over the North they call it immoral
and unchristian--they reserve the right of interpreting both the
Bible and the Constitution for us--as though we weren't grown men
ourselves. That's the sort of law there is back of this boat load
of fools down there."
"Men, we're wastin' time!" repeated young Desha.
"Get the horses!" ordered Dunwody of the nearest black.


CHAPTER XV
THE ARBITRAMENT
It was twilight when the little cavalcade from Tallwoods arrived at
the old river town of St. Genevieve. The peaceful inhabitants,
most of them of the old French strain, looked out in amazement at
the jaded horses, the hard-faced men. By this time the original
half dozen riders had received reinforcements at different
plantations, so that a band of perhaps thirty armed men had
assembled. It had needed little more for the average listener than
a word telling the news.


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