Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-02
Mary and Her Nurse.

mar! anu Her Nurse,
Aunt jimmy, when will Uncle Mnxy
come back" said sweet little girl TO her
nurse, slave who had taken care of her cv-
or since she was born. "Oh! do wish he
would come" she continued laughing. ale
used to make me such pretty baskets. and fiji
them with chnkapins and chestuuts. and
nice red apples. Don't you think he will
come before Christmas, Aunt" "God
knows whether he ever will come back houey;
Pm sure, never expect to see him again in
this world.
"Where's he gone? Why won't he come
back 2" said the child in amazement. "lsn't
he down at the old place where he goes eve
ry summer to work 2? "No, child" said
the nurse. He's gene long way further of
than that and tine poor woman sobbed while
she spoke. But where's he gone to, Aunt
Jimmy z" said the little girl. "He never
goes further than the old place; where can
he be if he is not there p "Oh my baby"
said the poor creature, catching her little
nursling in her arms he is gone away to
Georgy." "Gone to Georgy ~ screamed her
child, in passion of grief and resentment
"Where is that Aunt jimmy? Who sent
him there?" The little girl had no idea
what going to Georgia meant, but she knew
that il was dreaded by the slaves more than
death. "a bad man took him there" said
the thoughtful, kind-hearted woman, for she
would not willingly make the child think i'll
of her own father, cruelty os he had treated
her and her husband. But this would not
satisfy the little girl. "Tell me who sent
him there" said she stamping her little foot.
Where was my father? Why didn't you
tell him to make the naughty man bring him
l.,. .l.te a
the slave Maxy was sold and that man bought
him, and could take him anywhere he pleas
ed.' "But who sold him? Tell me Aunt
jimmy" said the child; soothingly, and III
get my father to make him bring him straight
back"
1t is of no use, said the slave; "you will
have to know it some day; master sold him."
"What! my father My father sell Uncle
Maxy" and the generous, right minded
child stood with tears hanging on her long
dark lashes, and deep flush on her cheek
caused by the mingled emotions Of shame,
anger and pity, that struggled in her heart
She had all her life known Uncle Maxy
and Aunt Jinney, as the faithful servants of
their household Their children wero her
first playmates, and she loved her kind nurse
almost as tenderly as she did her own moth
er This was the first change that had ta-
ken place in the family since her recollec-
ton, and as Maxy had always gone in the
summer to work on the old place. as her
fathers plantation was called, she did not
know that he was sold until now.
Little Mary sat down, and leaning her
head on her nurses lap, asked her many
questions about how people were sold and
bought and how one person had any right TO
by or sell another. 1t was all new to her, for
although born in the midst of slavery, and
accustomed always to see her fathers SER
wants treated as slaves, she did not know all
about it.
This transaction of buying and selling
was new 10 her, for in the neighborhood in
which her father resided, composed almost
entirely of old families, where slaves remain
from one generation to another, such nn
event as a sale of slave is of rare occur
renee. The child talked with her nurse, and
tried in her simple way to comfort her
with the hope of seeing her husband again.
She was pondering deeply in her heart
the things she had now heard for the first
time. She was sadly puzzled. How her
good, kind, loving father could be so cruel to
one he always seemed to think so much off,
she could not understand AT last, she said,
rising from her nurse "Pll go and ask faith
er all about it," "Oh! Lord love you, hon
ey, don't do that" said the nurse III a fright.
81 don't know what master would do TO me
too and then what would become of the
children?' The little girl sat down again,
and tried to understand why it would make
her father angry to hear that the nurse had
told her of what he had done, but this the poor
woman could not do, without telling the
child that her father had done something he
was afraid of, and she loved her too well to
do this. So little Mary kept all to herself,
and much and often did she think of and
wonder about the whole affair. There was
one thing, however, which nature taught her
that il was wrong for one man to sell
another, and take him by force from ull he
loves and all who love him.
This is at least good beginning, and thu
: child who believes this, will, as she grow
older, see just as clearly, that if it is wrong 70
one man to sell another, il must be wrong 70
one man to own another.-The Non-Sldut
, holder.