She was naturally indignant at the thought of losing the bird, which had so long laid for her the golden egg. 2. Secession offered a splendid opportunity, or occasion, on which to wreak a little wrath on the slave-holders of the South, on those “incorrigible men-stealers, merciless tyrants, and blood-thirsty assassins,” who so richly deserved to die. But it would, of course, be much more respectable to kill them as “rebels and traitors,” than merely as slave-holders.
