Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-30

"Not vrry | have been a lucky slave
have never been whipped"
"Have you a husband !"
al had a husband" she answered,
"Have you any children 2"
81 don't know" she replied, ard en- eS.
preston Of great agony came over her face.-
81 had," she continued, 1.-TWO boys. aud
when one was ten and the other twelve years
old, they were taken FROM me TO be soId,'
and then with a sort NJ scream, she added,
"when they did that, I did not care wha, be.
came Of inc. | have never card since of NV
boys, ior they were carried off to Georgia,
anu have been a slave In Virginia."
And you mean To 60 back 10 tho nan
who did this thing TO you"
Yes. ma'am, for | have given my word
That | Will, and ! must be as good as my
word" -
Sometime afterwards | heard tina, this faith.
iui creature succeeded in getting her three
hundted dollars, and carried it back TO ,hls
sotdld being, who had, however, so much uf
honesty lett, as 10 fulfill this lis last promise,
ana gave her her liberty, but took all her mo.
ney, He had before robbed her # her youth,
her early strength, her children, the Joy Of a
mothers life, aud then stripped Of all tina
could make existence desirable, he relin-
pushed his usurped claim over The poor worn.
out body that had been spent in his service.
l was %Tejolced, however, 10 learn that after
much effort she at last found her soma, but
both Of them slaves.
But 10 return 10 my parlor in the city. AZ.
ter this truly high-minded being had left me,
Of how little consequence place seemed 10
me! The thought Of the fidelity Of this poor
Injured, untaught woman 10 her master who
had hrnEnn hto ola. rs1.,.a, - L. ~
ldoa that because she had not been whipped
she Was a lucky slave though she had been
so cruelty robbed, that few of the three mil.
lions Of slaves in our land were so well off as
she, the burning Indignation that filled my
soul at the recollection Of her oppressed race,
all these thoughts made me feel that, tina,
was the best aud most desirable place whore
| could do the most for my fellow beings.
The whole visible world could not have
taught me such a lesson o. truth and fidelity
10 duty as this poor slave had taught me; and
all the boundless freedom Of the winds,
mountains, and streams could not have so in-
spired my soul with a deep hatred Of all tyr
ranny as did the simple story Of her wrongs
and Of her humanity master, who, in my
minds eye, | saw pocke,ing the money Civ
en- him by this faithful soul. and turning her
out a beggar from the house she had helped
to support by her industry. The lesson she
had unconsciously preached TO me that after
noon III the city was more to my soul than
could have learned from stones or running
brooks. No dispardgement 10 running brooks,
Of the music they make with the stones; 1
love them well, and TO Inc - nothing is So
like the voice Of a spirit as the sound OF the
wind through the pine %irees,' but yet it is
true that the simplest human soul enfOlds in
its recesses more glory and more beauty than
the whole visible creation.
But" you will say, ''think of the vice
and crime in the city, and the ruin and drgra.
dation Of the human soul" True, but even
in the worst scenes you find something re-
deeming, something 10 bind you still closer
TO your iellow-men-but Of this in another
letter if you are not weary of reading this.