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Show Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. sadly away frOlTI the lovely sight. 1. foresa-w tho incv~ itable lJlight that would fall on the little slave's heart. I knew how soon her laughter \voul<l be changed to sighs. The fair chilJ grew up to be a still fairer wo1nan. Pron1 childhood to womanhood her pathway was 1Jloo1ning with flowers, and overarche<l by a SUllllJ sky. Scarcely one day of her life. had bce1: cloutlcu when the .·un rose on her happy bnclal 1nonung. ' Ilow ha<.l tho ·e years dealt with her slave sister, the little playn1atc of her childhood ? She, also, 'Yas Ycry beautiful; but the flo,vcrs and sunshine of love were not for her. She drank the cup of ·in, and shame, . and 1niscry, whereof her persecuted. race arc com. polled to drink. In view of these things, why arc yo silent, yo free men and wo1ncn of the north? "\Vhy <lo your tongues falter in nutintcnance of the right? \V oulcl that I had more ability! But n1y heart is so full, and my pen 1 so weak ! There arc noble n1cn and \von1cn who plca<l for us, striving to help those ·who cannot help thmnselvcs. God bless thcn1! God give thc1n strength and courage to go on ! God bless those, every where, who are laboring to advance the cause of hun1anity! '\ The Jealous Mifirefs. 49 VI. 'riiE JE.ALOU. l\IIS'rRESS. I wouLD ten thou~aud titncs rather that n1y chil<1rcn should be the half-:tarvc<.l paupers of Ireland than to be the 1nost pa1npcrccl a1nong the slnscs of A.n1crica. I would rather drudge out n1y life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to gi ,.c 1110 rest, th:-tn to li ,~o with an unprin cipled 1nastcr and a jealous Jnistress. The felon's hou1e in a penitentiary is preferable. Ilc may repent, nnd turn fr01n the error of his \vays, and so find peace; but it is not so with a faYoritc f;ln.Y • She is not allo\Yccl to have any pride of character. lt is decn1ed a crin1c in her to ·wi.-h to he virtuous. ~Irs. Flint posses eel tl1c key to her hn ·band's character before I 'Yas born. She n1ight have u secl this knowledge to counsel and to screen the young and tbc innocent an1ong h er slaves ; lHLt for t1tcn1 she had no sympathy. They 'v re the o1ljccts of h er constant suspicion and rnalcvolence. She \vatchcd her hn ·band with unceasing vigilance; but he ,,a,, ·well practised in means to evade it. \Vhat he coulfl not flncl opportunity to say in 'vords he 1nanifcstcd in signs. Ilc invented n1ore than \Verc ever thought of in a deaf and du1nb asyhun. I let Lhcn1 pa.-s, as if l did not understand what he n1cant; and n1any ·were the curf'c, aud threats bestowed. on Inc for 1ny stupidity. One dny he caught 1ne teaching 1ny~clf to \rTitc. IIc frowned, as if he was not \veil pleased ; l>ut I suppose he can1c to 5 |
