This forever put an end
to his fine appearance at the negro parties. Had not the doctor
been one of the most indulgent of masters, he would not have
escaped with merely a severe whipping.
As a matter of course, Sam had to relate to his companions that
evening in Mr. Wilson's kitchen all his adventures as a physician
while with his old master.
CHAPTER IX
THE MAN OF HONOR.
AUGUSTINE CARDINAY, the purchaser of Marion, was from the Green
Mountains of Vermont, and his feelings were opposed to the holding
of slaves; but his young wife persuaded him in into the idea that
it was no worse to own a slave than to hire one and pay the money
to another. Hence it was that he had been induced to purchase
Marion.
Adolphus Morton, a young physician from the same State, and who had
just commenced the practice of his profession in New Orleans, was
boarding with Cardinay when Marion was brought home. The young
physician had been in New Orleans but a very few weeks, and had
seen but little of slavery. In his own mountain-home, he had been
taught that the slaves of the Southern States were negroes, and if
not from the coast of Africa, the descendants of those who had
been imported. He was unprepared to behold with composure a
beautiful white girl of sixteen in the degraded position of a
chattel slave.
The blood chilled in his young heart as he heard Cardinay tell how,
by bantering with the trader, he had bought her two hundred
dollars less than he first asked.
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