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Show 80 TilE MONT!ILY OFFERING. Thou wouldst have mercy, rather Than sacrifice by slavery's breath defiled, Oh thou of every race alike the father!-:- No gift like hearts in FREEDOM reconc1led I Oh thou of good the giver I . . ·we fling our worthless g1ft w1th tea~s away, And haste our suffering brethren to deliver Ere at thy shrine our grateful hearts we lay. Thnnko::lving. By M. W. ChapmaK. Free children of New England ! gather round Your hearths on this time-honored festival, A freeman's blessing on the slave to c.all, Who toils in hopeless pain beyond the sound Of joy and gladness in your dwellings found. Free though your own. u~fettered footsteps are, Your wills to follow, limitless and far, Your land is yet with freedom's wreath uncrowned. There's not a hollow of her smiling hills That may not echo to the blood-hound's baying As o'er the field the free-born laborer tills, The slave's proud master hunts him even to slaying! Shall such things be! no! gather tenfold stronger, And cry to heaven and earth-Such wrong shall be no longer! We regret not having received the rem~inder of the story of the fugitive ~l~ve, . by our fnend Hiram Wilson: In anticipation of recmvmg It, we prepared no other narra tive, and request our juvenile friends to excuse the defi· ciency. o::?The Collectors are requested to increase the .»umber of subscribers to the Offering as they find opportumty. TilE MONTHLY OFFERING. DECEMBER, 1840. For the Monthly Offering. JA~IES ~IA.JOR JllONROE-A Fugitive Slave. DY HIRAM WILSON. Concluded from page 56 Deep solicitude sat upon the brow of the poor captive. We had every physical comfort that heart could wish. The happy cirale around the Autumnal fire-side assuaged the sorrows, and in some degree, dispelled the gloom that darkened the prospect of the care-worn pilgrim to the American Canaan. The frightful howling of the winds, the rapid falling of the leaves, and the con slant roar of the waves, dashing upon the southern shores of the lake, most effectually impressed my mind with the decay of nature beneath the warring elements, and at the same time fitly corresponded with the tempestuous heavings of his troubled breast. We waited with painful anxiety till the going down of the sun, when the wind abated, a calm ensued, and we were called to the departing ste~tmer. We proceeded on our way, thankful lo God for our protection, and soon found ourselves at Detroit. A narrow strait only, separated the pilgrim from the ''promised land." He was soon at the east end of what we sometimes call Freedom's Ferry, where the deep gloom of a worse than Egyptian night dep_arted, and gave place to the bright sun of British liberty, which now beamed upon him. · He readily found employment in a respectable family, where he not only received liberal wages, but soon gained the confidence and approba- |