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Show 104 THE MONTHLY OHERING. the health of the family . "We are all well," replied the young man," and how are you doing 7 Do you get const.ant employment and good wages 7" "Yes, master, I am domg very well indeed." "I am glad to hear It, Jack. Stay where you are, and do the best you can. Keep out of your old maRter's si<dit and we will keep your ser.ret; never fear. But you0 h~d better go away till.the ~iddle of next week, for we shall be in the neighborhood till then. Here is a little keepsake to remember u• by. Mind and l<eep out of your old master's siaht; for father is trying bard to find you out. Good bye. "God bless you, Jack.'' "God bless you, master." . . The young gentleman gave him a new silk handkerchief, and the lady a silver coin, which the grateful slave holds as sacred us did the ancients their household gods. He stood lookin<T after them for a few moments with tear· ful eyes, and th~n turned to hide himself· from his old master A Conversation. " Have you seen John C. Gore's de~d 7" said a smooth lookin<T gentleman to an elderly lookwg one, after they had c;mfortably seated themselves in an omnibus. "~ yes," said he, and then followed some ucco~nt of~r. Gores peculiarities, and some remarks on the dimunJtion of the slave population, as it appears by the .last ce?;us. Then Doct. Channing's lust work, "Emanci~al!on,. ~vas talked of then the abolitioni•ts. " I do not thwk this JS the time fo~ agitatiug that subject," said the smooth look in&" gentle· man. The o\d gentleman, whose ~ead was w~Ite with age, and whose dress and r.onversutwn bespoke him ader,; gyman, answered him thus:" I remember an ol~ saymg, said he." when you don't know what to do, don t do you know not what." FREE. 105 Art thou a master in Israel? thought I, and know not the remedy for slavery 7 Said the first mentioned gcntle'man, " the abolitionists exaggerate so much-they tell such horrible cruel stories, that you don't know when to believe them." The· old man, who seemed to be ready to attach a tale to every remark that was made, told an instance of a ~ethodis t clergyman, who was the owner of slaves at the So~th, and who treated th em kindly. Only think, a professed minister holding slaves and treating them kindly! And this told to deride abolitionists who maintain that the cruelty lies in slavery, not in the appendages or the treatment. Things seemed to he going on smoothly, and two other passengers had acquiesced in the conclusion that the two worthies had come to, namely, that slavery was not so bad after !ill, &c. When the elderly gentleman proce~ ded to state a clincher, as he evid ently thought it. He satd an abolitionist, who was conversing with a passenger on board of a steamboat about slavery, Wll.S proceeding to remonstrate against the enormities of slavery, when a very fine, intelligent looking lady, who was sitting by, spoke out and ~aid, " why, sir, you thing that slavery is very bad; but I can tell you, sir, that my husband has one thousand slave communicants in his charch." The company appeared to regard this as a knock down rejoinder. I could restrai11 myself no longer, but, looking at the elderly gentleman, said, may I ask you a question, sir? " Cortainly," said he, "What kind of treatm ~ nt is it to make chattels and merchandize of one thcuaand members of the church 7" " 0, that," said he, "is another question." I replied, I knew it; but it was a knock down question to his apology for the system of slavery. " • Extract from" The Hour and the Man." Free. DAY after day passed on, and the prisoner found no change in his condition-as far, at least, as it depended on |