Word: mosely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose Southwick against his influential persecutors...
...good-natured, thoughtful Negro, Mose had wandered into Mississippi from Louisiana, landed at last on the Rutherford plantation. There he lived contentedly, preaching and farming, until his marriage to a bad Negro woman from town lost him the respect of his neighbors, earned him the enmity of Birney, the plantation overseer. Only because Old Rutherford hated his degenerate sons and his pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then...
With attention concentrated on the fearful intrigue steadily tightening around Mose, readers may be slow in recognizing that Author Rylee has unobtrusively built him up as a strong character, a human being extraordinary in his selflessness, his patience and simple eloquence, his deep inner contentment with the seasonal simplicities of farm life. "De Lord done been trampled on befo. . ." he sermonizes. "An hit ain't never ruffle de Lord none. Dey done nail de Lord up an poke a knife in he side and done laid de crown o' thawns on he haid, an hit didn...
Southerners may wonder that so amiable and intelligent a Negro as Mose should blunder into such devilish complications, or provoke such vicious enemies, but they are not likely to cavil over Author Rylee's understanding of the peculiar problems of Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes...
...widely famed a gambler as a horse owner, Colonel Bradley lives up to his reputation. He will bet you it will or will not rain tomorrow. All bets are recorded by his personal commissioner, Mose Cossman, 30 years in his service, for whom he once named a horse Bet Mose. At Saratoga, when the yearlings are displayed, Colonel Bradley habitually offers even money that any horse you name will not win a purse the following year. In 1932 some one picked The Triumvir, for which Mrs. Payne Whitney had paid the highest price of the year, but Colonel Bradley...