Their action would doubtless be criminal, and I would probably be imprisoned.

I went home and wrote a reply to the _Gazette_, which it refused to publish, but it appeared in the _Spirit_.

I reiterated, urged and intensified my charges against these false priests, until they were dumb about their injuries and libel suit, but of that original article I never could get a copy.

Every one had been sold and resold, and read to rags, before I knew it was in print.
I continued to write for the "Spirit," but still there did not seem to be anything I could do for the slave.

As soon as I was able to be about the house, I fell into my old round of drudgery, but with hope and pride shut out of it.