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stopped short: "General Durham, you don't seem to understand negroes."
"And you don't understand Mahometans."
"This old negro is harmless as a baby."
"So was Mahomet Achmet. Yet he raised a war and built a military power which killed eight millions of people."
"Raised a war? Zack never could raise any thing but cotton—and mighty little of that."
"We will see, we will see. Unless he has been safely hid, my men should find him within an hour."
