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Show 236 ON FREEDOM. Or, if in thy heart be shine, . Blends the starry fates with tlnnc, Draws angc1 s lll·o·d l to dwell with thee, And mo k cs thy thouorrh ts OTClrongcls be ; Freedom's secret woulrl'st thou know?Right thou fcelcst rashly do. AN ANTf.SLA VEHY REMrN!SCENCE. so~rE years ago a free colored woman, who was born in New England, and had gone to the south to nt· tend upon s·omc fhmily, was shipwrecked, as she was r:cturning northwards, on the canst of North Carolina. She, however, as well as some of the crew of the vessel, was soverl. The half-civilized people of that region rendered some assist::mcc to the shipwrecked party; but Mary Smith was detained by one of the natives as a slave. 'l'hc poor woman snccccdcd in getting a lcttcl' 1rrittcn to some person in Boston, in which the particulars of her Rtory were narrated. Either this letter, or one afterwards written, contained references to people iu Boston who were acquainted with her. |
