about ten o'clock in the morning
The master sets the most dissipated and immoral examples in his own person , and allows his children not only to exercise their youthful caprices , but to gratify such feelings as are pernicious to their moral welfare , upon his slaves . Now , the question is , that knowing the negro 's power of imitation , ought not some allowance to be made for copying the errors of his master ? Yet such is not the case ; for the slightest deviation from the strictest rule of discipline brings condign punishment upon the head of the offender . ON the 22d of March last , about ten o'clock in the morning , a thin , spare-looking man , dressed in a black cashmeret suit , swallow-tail coat , loose-cut pants , a straight-breasted vest , with a very extravagant shirt-collar rolling over upon his coat , with a black ribbon tied at the throat , stood at the east corner of Broad and Meeting street , holding a very excited conversation with officers Dusenberry and Dunn . His visage was long , very dark -- much more so than many of the colored population -- with pointed nose and chin , standing in grim advance to each other ; his face narrow , with high cheek-bones , small , peering eyes , contracted forehead , reclining with a sunken arch between the perceptive and intellectual organs -- or , perhaps , we might have said , where those organs should have been . His countenance was full of vacant restlessness ; and as he stared at you through his glasses , with his silvery gray hair hanging about his ears and neck in shaggy points , rolling a large quid of tobacco in his mouth , and dangling a little whip in his right hand , you saw the index to his office . As he raised his voice -- which he did by twisting his mouth on one side , and working his chin to adjust his enormous quid -- the drawling tone in which he spoke gave a picture not easily forgotten .