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ployed.1 The opposite counsel were full of sophistry and eloquence.
One of them really wiped his own eyes at the thought that the poor little slave might be separated from its slave mother by mistaken benevolence.
His pathos was a little marred by my friend E. G. Loring, who arose and stated that it was distinctly understood that little Med was to be sold on her way back to New Orleans, to pay the expenses of her mistress's journey to the North.
The judges decided unanimously in favor of Med and liberty!
The Commercial Gazette of the next day says: “This decision, though unquestionably according to law, is much to be regretted; for such cases cannot but injure the custom of our hotels, now so liberally patronized by gentlemen from the South.”
Verily, Sir Editor, thou art an honest devil; and I thank thee for not being at the pains to conceal thy cloven foot.
1 The expectations thus excited that Mr. Choate would become an opponent of slavery were doomed to disappointment; during the latter years of his life he was utterly hostile to the anti-slavery movement.
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