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involve himself deeper,

involve himself deeper, and finally concludes by pleading for a delay. Scarce any one would have thought a person of mr. Mcarthurs position, indebted to mr. Keepum but so it was. It is very difficult to tell whose negroes are not mortgaged to mr. Keepum, how many mortgages of plantation he has foreclosed, how many high old families he has reduced to abject poverty, or how many poor but respectable families he has disgraced. He has a reputation for loaning money to parents, that he may rob their daughters of that jewel the world refuses to give them back. And yet our best society honor him, fawn over him, and bow to him. We so worship the god of slavery, that our minds are become debased, and yet