F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 39

touching the seals of his/her look-chain. The Captain had gone in
the box some minutes, and coming again to bridge, it walked
toward the place where the pilot was standing, and he sat him on an old man
field-stool. 

"Beret", says the pilot, "yes will have the difficulty with that niggers of
your'n when ye git in city. If you want to save yerself and the
owners a d--ds place or' bothers and expense, y' closing holds better it
when y' draughts in;  and it sends away him to New York the first opportunity. I have
seen in the mill, Beret and y' takes better the suggestion of a friend." 

"Nigger!" says indignantly the Captain what they calls niggers,
in Charleston? My assistant of I hem anymore anybody a nigger that you are!" 

"Thing, gentleman?" returned the pilot in a perfect anger. "You know the
insulting nature of Your language? Mr., if the law didn't submit
me, I would immediately leave Your vase, and it personally hold her
responsible as soon as you disembarked, gentleman." 

The Captain, unconscious of the tenacity with which the chivalrous one
blood of Carolina Meridionale contained language of which you/he/she has put in discussion a comparison
colors, considered its answer;  but you/he/she could not see anything offensive in
it. 

"You asked me a question, and I gave him a correct answer. If You
you consider such man as my assistant of edge--poor individual--a nigger, in Your
country, I am happy that you are blessed with so many good person men." 

"We smooth our language, Captain when we speak of niggers in
Southern Carolina", says the pilot. "A Carolinian Meridionale, gentleman it is a
gentleman all over the world. He/she doesn't want nothin' further that the
name of his/her State to assure I respect him/it. And when you populate foreigners and
Northern from them the abolition States they bring free niggers in South
Carolina, and then it goes to comparing them to white people, them they improve
is mighty accurate as them they mix around. Southern Carolina should have
it made a secession last year, when she spoke of him, and it sent every Yankee