Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-09-28


alabaster ladies' others watch with
eager eye, and with fawn-like step
anticipate and supply wants before
they are sufficiently formed TO be an
nouuced by word or sign.
These servants constituted a sort
of black aristocracy on Col. Lloyd's
plantation. They resembled the
field hands in nothing, except in col
or, and IN this they held the adyan-
tuge Of velvct-ikc glossiness, rich
and beautiful. The hair, too, show
ed the same advantage. The deli
cate colorcd maid rusilcd in the
scarcely worn silk of her young mis-
tress, while the servant men were
equally well a,tired from the over
flowing wardrobe of their young mas
tiers; so that in dress, as we'll us in
form and feature, in manner and
speech, IN tastes and habits, the dis
lance between these favored few and
the sorrow and hungei-smilten multi
tudes of the quarter and the field,
was immense and this is seldom
passed over.
Let us now glance at the stables
and the carriage house, and we shall
find the same evidences of pride aud
luxurious extravaganza. Here are
three splendid coaches, soft within,
and luslrous without. Here, too, are
gigs, phaelons, barouches, sul&eys
and slelghs. Here are saddles and
harnoSses-beautifully wrought and
silver mounted--kepi with every care.
In The stable you will lind, kept only
for pleasure. full ihitt, five horses, of
the most approved blood for speed
aud beauty. There are Two men
here constantly employed in taking
care of these horses. One of these
men must always be in the stable, to
answer every call from the great
house. Over the way from the sta
bic, is a house built expressly for the
bounds pack of twenty-five or
thlrty-whose fare would have made
glad the heart of dozen slaves
Horses and hounds arc not the only
consumers of the slaves toll. There
was practiced at the Lloyd's hosri-
tality which would have astonishcd
and charmed any notwithstanding
northern divine or merchant, who
might have CHANGED TO share it -
Viewed from his own table, and not
from the field, the colonel was a mo-
del OF generous hospitality. His
house was literally hotel, for weeks
during the summer months. AT these
times especially, the AIR was freighted
with the rich fumes OF baking, boil
ing; roasting and broilIng. The o.
doris shared with the winds but the
meats were under a more stringent
opoly-cxcept that, occasionally,
| got a cake from Mas Daniel In
f''0s- DduIeI mad Trend at court,
from whom | learned many things
which my eager curiosity was excited
TO snow. always knew when com
pany was expected, and who they
were, although | was an outsider, be-
ing the property, not Of Col. Lloyd,
but Of servant of the wealthy colo
mel. On these occasions, all that
pride, taste and money could do, to
dazzle and charm, was done.
Who could say that the servants
OF Col. Lloyd were not well clad and
cared for, after Witnessing one of his
magnificent entertainments Who
could say that they did not seem to
glory in being the slaves of such a
master: Who, but a fanatic, could
get up any sympathy for persons
whose every movement was agile, ca
sy and graceful, aud who evlnced a
consciousness of high superiority p
And who would ever venture to sus-
pecl that Col. lloyd was subject TO
The troubles of ordinary MORALS p
Master aud slave seem alike 10 their
glory here. Can it all be seeming?
Alas 1t may only be sham at last !
This immense wealth; tins glded
splcndor; this proluslon of luxury;
this exemption from toll this life of
ease Tins sea OF plenty aye, what
OF II all Z Are the pearly gates of
happiness and sweet content flung
open to such sullors; far from IL :
ihe poor slave,on his hard piue plank
but scanllly covered with his tim
blanket, sleeps more soundly than the
leversh volupIuary who reclIncs up
on his feather bed aud downy pillow.
Food, to the Indolent lounger, is pot
son, not sustenauce. Lurking be-
meath all their dishes, are Invisible
spirits Of evil, ready TO feed the self
dei~dvd SuinIauuizrrs with acnes,
pans, fierce tempers, uncontrolled
passions, dyspepsia, rheumatism, lum-
bago and govt; and Of these the
Lloyds got their full share. 10 the
pampered lover OF ease, there is no
resting place What is pleasant TO-
day, Is repulslye tomorrow; what is
soft now, Is hard al an other time
what is sweet IN the morning is bitter
in the evening. Neither 10 the wick
ed, nor 10 the idler, is there any solid
peace. "1routted like The restless
sea"
A fellow coming from the top of
The Alleghanles TO New York, in
Winter, was asked whether il was
as cold there as in the city. lior-
ribIy cold, said he, for they have
no thermometers there, and, Of
cntrse Al pets inst as cold as n nleas-