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Show POttTRAITURE OF S!.AVER \•, 57 encd, by way of reprimand,·*) that on seeing a stranger coming tow~1rds the house, (on a cold duy,) "hom he suspected to be a Georgia-man, he fled into the fields with the greatest precipitation, and secreted himself so eHi:.ctually, that he was not discovered until the expiration of a IOrtnight,-when he was dead !-fi·ozen !-and the pupils of his eyes picked out! With these mournful spectra, flitting in succession before me, and the black procession still in view, the pleasant anticipations which I had been indulging hut fifteen minutes previous, became totally revc.rsed. H.eturning pensive towards my lodgings, and passin g- b) the c::1 pitol, I thought-Alas! poor Africa,-thy cup is the esseuce of bitterness !-.fhis solitary magnifictnt temple, dedicated to liberty,-opcns its portals to all other nations but th ee, and bids their sons drink freely of the cup ofjreedom and happiness :--but when thy unoffcnding, enslaved sons, clank their blood-smeared clzabzs unr er its towers, it sneers at their calamity, and mocks their lamentation:-. ";th the echo of contempt !-Elevating my eyes, (the vbion of which was possibly rendered somewhat illusive by the mists of sorrow,) I imagined I discc.:rned the geniuses of Liberty and lmmanity, Perching on the crumbling terrace or their terrestrial palace :- The former with her eyes darling terrible frownsj,..._ ... ~L'he Iutt er imlulgingin tears ami feebler moan.lJ:_. Shock'd with the scenc,-they ort revert their eyes, That stream'd &t ev'ry look-then vanishing slow, Sought their 01vn palnce, and indulged their woe:Mingling their sorrows wilh God in the skies.f * It is a frequent custom iu the District of Columbia l\lnrylam) and Delaware, for masters to endeavor to reform th eir' bad slaves ' by terrifying them wiUt threats of selling them for the Georgia mRr: ket, or 4' lo Carolina'' them; which is often carried into effect. There arc, n~twiUlstanding, senrul individuals, so conscienciou sly op110Sed to. sellmg .men against their will, that thu most unpardonable conduct will. not mduce men to t.lo it; and they prefer rejecting them, and leUmg them keep all the wages they can get for th eir own use . . t See Homer's description of the grief of Andromache, on parling W1th Hector, who confessed to her his fears of a fatal result of the- |