 ... former (slaveholder though he was) seemed to possess some regard for honor, some reverence for justice, and some respect for humanity. The latter seemed totally insensible to all such sentiments. Mr. Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders,...  Once a Week - Page 27edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | James Todd Miller - 2001 - 276 pages
...somewhat arbitrary and consequential for he has hardly known what it was to be contradicted in so long but i must do him the justice to say that he was quite popular with his Company please wr[i]te soon and tel me all the news you can think of so good... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 2003 - 140 pages
...Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1868 - 592 pages
...Somehow or other, he and I could never pull well together ; he always owed me a grudge, why I never knew; but I must do him the justice to say that he was never backward in paying me off whenever he had tho chance to do so. Poor fellow ! he afterwards died... | |
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