HONOR; OR, THE SLAVE-DEALER'S DAUGHTER.
BYSTEPHEN G. BULFINCH.
"I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more." COLONEL RICHARD LOVELACE. 1642.
BOSTON:
WILLIAM V. SPENCER,
134 WASHINGTON STREET.
1864.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by STEPHEN G. BULFINCH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
ELECTROTYPED AT THE Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 4 Spring Lane.
PREFACE.
IN introducing this little story to the public, the author would observe that while the tale, as a whole, is fictitious, the sketches of southern scenery, life, and manners, are derived from a residence of many years in that section of our country.
He has wished to do justice to the better side of southern character, while portraying some features of that fatal system, which has been scarce less injurious to the master than to the slave, and has now consummated its work of evil by the crimes and the horrors of the present rebellion,—to find therein, let us hope, its own destruction.
Some particulars in the narrative, which may seem improbable, are derived from fact; such is the incident connected with a popular song; and such the singular legal decisions referred to in the charge of Judge Stanley to the jury.
page: 4-5 (Table of Contents) [View Page 4-5 (Table of Contents) ]CONTENTS.
- I. "A TRAP TO CATCH A SUNBEAM." 7
- II. "WHAT'S IN A NAME?" 15
- III. AN ARRIVAL AND A SCENE. 21
- IV. "HE LEFT HIS COUNTRY FOR HIS COUNTRY'S GOOD." 30
- V. COMING TO THE POINT. 37
- VI. THE SLAVE-DEALER. 47
- VII. TEMPTATION. 55
- VIII. TRAVELLING SOUTH. 66
- IX. LIFE IN XENOPHON. 73
- X. A STAGE-COACH AND ITS PASSENGERS. 83
- XI. TUSCULUM. 92
- XII. THE EVIL EVERY WHERE. 103
- XIII. THE GOLD REGION. 111
- XIV. HASTY AND INCAUTIOUS. 118
- XV. THE TAVERN AND ITS INMATES. 125
- XVI. A STRANGE SCRUPLE. 135
- XVII. THE MOB. 149
- XVIII. COUNTRY LIVING AND RELIGION. 163
- XIX. AN INDIAN CHIEF AND A STRAY POET. 176
- XX. INTO THE LION'S MOUTH. 191
- XXI. THE TRIAL. 204
- XXII. THE DEFENCE. 215
- XXIII. THE UNEXPECTED WITNESS. 221
- XXIV. THE CONCLUSION. 230
