Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-29
SALEM O1O SATURDAY, DECEMBER 90 1856

splendid coaches, soft within and iusrous With
out. Here too, are gigs ph@tons, barouches, sui
KEYS and seighs. Here are saddles and harness
es-Oeautifuly wrought and silver mounted-kept
with ,very care. In the stable you will find, kept
only for pleasure, full thirty-fye horses. of
the most approved blood for speed and beauty
There are two men here constantly employed in Ia
king care of these horses. One of these men must
be always in the stable to answer every call from
the great house. Over the way from the stable,
is house built expressly for the hounds. .Therewas
practiced at the Lloyd's, hospitality Which
would have astonished and charmed any health
seeking northern divuc or merchant who might
have chanced to share il. Viewed from his own
table. and not from the field, the Colonel was n
model of generous hospitality. His house was
literally, hotel for weeks during tho summer
months at these times, especially the air was
freighted with the rich fumes Of baking. boiling,
roasting and broiling. The odors | shared with
the winds; but the meats were under more stiin-
gent monopoly except that, occasionally, got
cake from Mas Daniel. In Mas Daniel had n
friend at court, from whom learned many things
which my eager curiosity was excited to know.
always knew when company was expected, and
who they we're, although was an outsider, being
the property, not of Col. Lloyd, but of II servant
of the wealthy Colonel. 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 master2 Who, but fanatic,
could get up any sympathy for persons whose ev-
cry movement was agile, easy and graceful, and
who evinced consciousness of high superiority
! Aud who would ever venture to suspect that Col.
Lloyd was subject to the troubles Of ordinary NOR
tails? Master and slave seem alike in their glory
here Can it all he seeming Alasl it may only
be sham at last This immense wealth; this gil
ded splcndor; this pr0fuson Of luxury; this ex-
empon from toll this life Of ease, this Of pen-
ty ave- what of it all Are the pearly gates oi
happiness and sweet content flung open to such
suitors far from IL! The poor slave, on his
hard, pine plank but scantily covered with his
thin blanket sleeps more soundy than the feverish
voluptuary who reclines upon his feather bed and
downy pillow. Food, to the indolSnt lounger, is
poison, not sustenance. Lurking beneath all their
dishes are invisible spirits Of evil, ready to feed
the selfdeluded gormandizers with aches, pains,
fierce tempers, uncontrolled passions, dyspepedsia,
rheumatism, lumbago and gout; and of these the
Lloyds got their full share. To the pampered
love of ease, there is no resting place. What is
pleasant to-day, is repulsve tomorrow; what is
soft now is hard at another time what is sweet in
the morning. is bitter in the evening. Neither to
the wicked, nor to the idler is there any solid
peace: Trouble Ike the restless sea-"