Slavery, however, had long been doomed, like other relics of barbarism, by the spirit of the age; and his wisdom and that of men like him, with the logic of events and the irresistible force of the world's opinion, would have found some peaceful, gradual remedy for an evil which wrought even more injury to the master than to the bondman.
"His Sombre Rivals"
E. P. Roe
Soon, when his visitor left him, the bondman could follow the free in all but the flesh, through every corridor of the prison and every street outside, to the hotel where you read the English papers on the veranda, or to the little restaurant where the Chianti was corked with oil which the waiter removed with a wisp of tow.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
An' Clancy, that was bail-bondman at Twelfth Sthreet.
"Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen"
Finley Peter Dunne