However unjust my sentence was, there's no denying I've committed at least three felonies since.

Last year our press agents filled up the members of the local press with ginger ale, and when we struck Philadelphia this time the newspapers had sworn out warrants for our show, on the charge of compounding a felony, which I suppose is the legal name for ginger ale.

But this was very seldom, for the vigilance of slave owners was always alive to detect, and their vengeance to punish such daring felony.

They can believe all thisand further, that a majority of the citizens in the places where these outrages have been committed, connived at them; and by refusing to indict the perpetrators, or, if they were indicted, by combining to secure their acquittal, and rejoicing in it, have publicly adopted these felonies as their own.

"To keep a confidence like that is practically to abet a felony.

then, when all Lay in the far-off distance, when the road Stretch'd out before thine eyes interminably, Then hadst thou courage and resolve; and now, Now that the dream is being realized, The purpose ripe, the issue ascertain'd, Dost thou begin to play the dastard now? Plann'd merely, 'tis a common felony; Accomplish'd, an immortal undertaking: And with success comes pardon hand in hand, For all event is God's arbitrament.

I felt I had no right to put him in the position of having to choose between denouncing me and condoning a murdercompounding a felony.

"You see, I am going to do everything I can to prevent that felony.

He was assured that he would suffer no felony at their hands.