The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-08-28
WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1851.

loNe IN tue bhles' OF plying Jesus, ana an eter-
nal home; but the ear was deaf with anguish, and
the palsied heart could not feel.
Night came on-night calm, unmOved and
glorious, shining down with her innumerable and
solemn angel eyes, twinkling, beautiful, but ST.
lent-there was no speech nor language--nO pity
ing voice nor helping hand from that distant sky
One after another, the voices Of business or
pleasure died away, all on the boat were sleep
ing aud the ripples at the prov were plainly
heard Tom stretched himself out on a box, and
there rs he lay, he heard, ever and anon, smoth-
cred sob or cry from the PROSTATE creature
"OA what shall do oh Lord Oh good Lord,
do help meW and So ever and anon, until the
murmur died away in silence
At midnight Tom walked with a sudden start
Something black passed quickly by him to the
side Of the boat, and he heard splash in the
water No one else saw or heard anything He
raised his head-the woman's place was vacant
He got up, and sought her everywhere in vain
The poor bleeding heart Was still, at last and the
river rippled and dimped just as brightly as if IL
had not closed above IT,
Patience patience ye whose hearts swell in
dignant at wrongs like these Not one throb Of
anguish, not one tear Of the oppressed is forgot
ten by the Man Of Sorrows, the Lord Of Glory
In his patient, generous bosom he bears the an
gnish Of world. Bear those like him in pa
tenca, end labor in love, for sure as he is God,
" the year Of his redeemed shall Gomez
Ihs trader walked up bright aud early, and
came out to see to his live stock. IL was now his
turn to look about in perplexity.
Where alive is that gal ~ he said to Tom.
Tom, who had learned the wisdom Of keeping
counsel, did not feel called on to state his obser-
vations and suspicious, but said he did not know
She surely couldn't have got off in the night
at any Of the landings, for was awake, and on
n ant M an L. .os 10 ii 4
trust these yer things to other folksn
This speech WAS addressed to Tom quite conf
dentally, as if it was something that would be
specially interesting to him. Tom made no an
sWer
The trader searched the boat from stem to
stern, among boxes bales, and barrels, around the
machinery, by the ehimneys, in vain.
- 4,o-, - -. - : -. zig Ist =
he said, when after fruitless search, he came
%>ttA 9th $ds NSnA3A4 - a6a kpbF, L ,.:ss.s,5
thing about it, now. Don't tell me- know you
do. saw the gal stretched out here about ten
o'clock, and sgin at twelve, and agin between one
and two, and then at four she was gone, and you
was sleeping right there all the time. Now you
know something-you can't help IT,"
Well msss'r," said Tom, towards morning
something brushed by me, and kinder half woke,
and then ] hearn great splash, and then olar
woke up, and the gal was gone. That's all
know on'tD
The trader was not shocked nor amazed-be-
cause, as we said before he was used TO great
many things that you are not used TO. Even the
awful presence Of Death struck no solemn chill
upon him. He had seen Death many times-met
him in the way Of trade and got acquainted with
him, and he only thought Of him az hard Gus
toner, that embarrassed his property operations
very unfairly and so he only swore that the gal
was baggage, and that he was devilish unluoky,
and that if things went on in this way, he should
not make cent on the trip. In short, he seemed
to consider himself an ill-used man. decidedly,
but there was no help for it, as the woman had
escaped into n state which Reper MIL give up a
fugitive-not even at the demand Of the whole
glorious Union. The trader therefore sat discon-
tentedly down with his little account book, and
put down the missing body and soul under the
head Of losses!
"He's shocking creature isn't he--this ira
der 40 unfeeling it's dreadful, reallyw
ooh, but nobody thinks anything Of these ira
ders They are universally despised-never re-
ceived into any decent society,"
But who, sir, makes the trader7 Who is most
TO blamel The enlightened, cultivated, intelli-
| gent man, who supports the system Of which the
trader Is the inevitable resut--or the poor trader
himselt7 You make the publr sentiment that
calls for his trade that debauches and depravet
him till he feels no shame in IT, and In what are
you better than he1
Are you educated and he ignorant, you high
and he low, you rehned and he coarse, you tai
ented and he simple
In the day Of future Judgment these very
considerations may make it more tolerabe for
him than for you.
In concluding these little incidents of lawful
trade, we must beg the world not to think that
American legislators are entirely destitute Of hu-
manity as might perhaps he unfairly Inferred
from the great efforts made In our national body
to protect and perpetuAte this species Of traffic
Who does not know how our great men are
outdoing themselves in deolaiming against the
forsign slave trade. There are perfect host Of
| Clarksons and Wilberforces risen up among US
on that subject, most edifying to hear and behold
Trading negroes from Africa dear reader, is 80
horrid It is not to be thought of But trading
them from Kentucky-thats quite another
thing