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Show 138 FRIENDSIIIP FOR TIIE SLAVE. mind should return to tl1c master's breast, now,-cspc· ci:IlJy in hours of sickness and suflCring, atHl at the approach of dcath,-so often disturbed, and a sense of safety be restored to l1is family, so that it should no longer be necessary to keep the pistols or the riOc always at hand, and that the wife and children could lie down and s1ccp at night, without starting at unusual or sudden sounds, or n.pprchcnding in surrection when they bear the cry of fire. Suppose that such a change as this were possible, is it the part of a friend or an enemy to desire to have it effected? But all such suppositions as these, the southern man will perhaps say, are visionary and utopian irr the highest degree. No such state of things as is contcm· plated by them, can by any possibility be realized with such a population as the southern slaves. V cry well; say this, if you please, and prove it, if it can be proved. But do not charge those who desire that it might be realized, with being actuated, in advocating the change, by unfriendly feelings towards you,-for most assuredly they do not entertain any. ) "0, these childcn, how they do lie round our henrts."-MrLI.Y EDMONDSON. TIIE clock struck the appointed hour, and the sale commenced. Articles of household furmture, horses, carts, and slaves, were waiting together to be sold to the higl1cst bidder. For strange as it would seem in another land than this, beneath the ample folds of the "Star-spangled B.anncr/1 human sinews were to be bought ancl sold: Bodies, such as the Apostle called the "temples of the IIoly Ghost," in which dwelt souls for which Christ died ;-men, women and little children, made in the image of God, were classed with marketable commodities, to be sold by the pound, like dumb beasts in the shambles. llusbands would be torn from their wives, mothers from their children, and all from everything they loved most dearly. |
