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Show 10 THE ~!ONTHLY OFFERING. • OH! HOW HAPPY!!! The following anecdote from our brother Bishop proves couclusively that the slaves are pos•essed with the same feelings and emotions, and governed by the •arne motives and influences whirh would govern othNs under like circumstances. Read it, and judge for yourselves. For the Offering. "Why do you not get a wife 1" said I, jokingly, one evening ton noble looking and noble hearted lllan of dark skin, in Virginia. "Why," he rPplied, looking very serious and sad, "if I must an::::wer you, it is because I consider myself to be a tight bound slm•o All my time and all my earnings belong 10 my master. Bu that it would be. impossible for me to bestow upori a wife those little attentions which a husband should. I become so fatigued through the day, that I cannot work in the night to procure presents and little necessaries for her. Besides, if I had ~ wife, she would belong to some other master, so that I could not even visit her without going away to a distance, on foot, at times when I should greatly need sleep and rest. Under these and similar disabilities, I think it better for me to remain as lam. \Vhv should I have a wife, when I cannot oe a husband to her? Do you not think that I am right 1" Do slaves desire freedom 1 was a question that I involuntarily asked myself. and the answer rushed over my mind from the look and tone of that chained man hefore me. He felt that he wa• a slave. and his very countenance showed that his emotions were all nfter frrrdom. I shall never forget that conversation, nor can I forget that rtow while I am writing. thi3 man, so noble, und <o rapable, is lnborin~ for another without rewnrd, or, to U~C' hi ~ own words, as a" tight bound slave." Let us per~ev~re in our nnti·slavery labors, till from his limhs and the limb' of his two million seven hundred thousand associates, the fett!'rs are all melted away. J. P. B. PINDA :-A TRUE JALE . THE SPIRIT WHICH WILL EFFECT THE DESTRUCTION OF SLAVERY. 11 The followin~t extract of a letter received from a noblehearted friend of the slave, in Walpole, exhibits that selfsacrificing s pirit, and that untiring devotion to the cause of the crushed and imbruted bondman, which, if universally manifested by those who claim to be his friend s, would, with the blessing of God, soon raise him from his de· gradation, and give him a practical residence on the g reat platform of lturnanity. We say to all who may read the extract, Go and do likewiu. "I and my young daughter pay a weekly contribution of n cent a week apiece, and more if we can get it. But, reading your address, it drew tears of real sympathy, and I have put in one shilling. I know it is but a mite, but receive it with my prayers. I wish I had more to give, but I have just paid our monthly allowance, and can send no more this time " ........ ~~ PINDA: A TRUE T ALE. By Maria \Veslon Chaplllan. CHAPTJ.;n J.- A SHIP'S CABIN. O oe dark night ' in the year 1836, an unusual stir took place on the deck of the good ship Eli "Vhitney, about to sail from Boston to Savannah. It was occaeioned by the appearance of an officer, charged with a writ of habeas corpu.s, in favor of a supposed slave, who \vas known to have been carried on board by her master. Slave-holders are accustomed •o say that their victims can!>ot be persuaded to take thei1· freedom, and to bring thetr own a•sertion ns a proof of the merits of slavery It was, therefore, an anxious moment for the friends of free· |