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"Why," Paid he, "we should all have to go to court?"
"Well, that would be interesting," said she; "but for what?"
"Why," said he, "you know that this is free soil: Kate is a slave; she
can have her freedom for nothing if she comes here. Some of our
Massachusetts gentlemen are as chivalrous and attentive to Southern
colored people, as our good friend tells us Southern gentlemen are to a
white woman: a committee would wait on Kate, with an officer of the
peace, and invite her to visit the court-house with them, to be
presented with 'freedom'; and Kate's mistress must go with her, to show
that she is not restraining Kate of her liberty."
"Why," said Mrs. North, "if I could not be allowed, in visiting Sharon
Springs, to take Judith with me to give me my baths, because she is
free, I should call it barbarism. Who was that gentleman that broke his
collar-bone and seat to you, husband, to get him a nurse?"
Mr. North said it was a student in a medical school, from the South.
"Did you find him a nurse?" said she.
"Yes," he replied; "but he groaned and said, 'Mother wanted to send on
my mammy that nursed me, but your laws will not allow her to come.
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