10/16 We need not care what others say--evewybody knows who we are and what we are ?" "No, Western; I know the North better than you do; it wouldn't answer at all here. We cannot take the boy--it is impossible; it would create a rumpus amongst the clerks, who would all feel dreadfully insulted by our placing a nigger child on an equality with them. I assure you the thing is out of the question." "Well, I must say you Northern people are perfectly incompwehensible. You pay taxes to have niggers educated, and made fit for such places--and then won't let them fill them when they are pwepared to do so. I shall leave you, then, to tell them we can't take him. |