berater

— But a very few slaves have been, or are likely to be, surrendered under this law, and a mere pittance on the part of the Abolitionists and Free Soilers would be sufficient to redeem them. Come, then, ye noisy declaimers and defamers, ye haters and beraters of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, and shell out your cash for the redemption of Preston, over whom you have made so many lamentations and shed so many crocodile tears.