* I make no pretension to fine writing, but perhaps Mrs. Hardinge
can lay over that. O, of course! M. McG.
** The Declaration of Independence grants to each subject "the
pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness." A fugitive slave may be
said to personify "life, liberty, and happiness." Hence his
pursuit is really legal. This is logic. G. A. S.
CHAPTER IV.
The roasting of an Abolitionist, by a greatly infuriated community,
was my first taste of the horrors of civil war. Heavens! Why will
the North persist in this fratricidal warfare? The expulsion of
several Union refugees, which soon followed, now fairly plunged my
beloved State in the seething vortex.
I was sitting at the piano one afternoon, singing that stirring
refrain, so justly celebrated, but which a craven spirit, unworthy
of England, has excluded from some of her principal restaurants,
and was dwelling with some enthusiasm on the following line:--
"Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!"
when a fragment of that scum, clothed in that detestable blue
uniform which is the symbol of oppression, entered the apartment.
"I have the honor of addressing the celebrated rebel spy, Miss
McGillup," said the Vandal officer.
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