Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-02-02
For tie Spirit of the Ace
A TRUE TALE DE- THE SOUTH
"WHO KNOWsBUT He WILL, %
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" uO hNON LIE WILL? ?"
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At the end of tB lawn, Just as he ".
about to pass thai ate for the last tim,
which had SO ofte admitted him TO n
cheerful home, andgo forth friendles
wanderer, he met Tor old Cato, now ovel
whelmed with grit at the unlucky tnr
which things had8f1en. Tears thick an
fast, ran down the e ne-fretted channels :
the old negro's ssngy cheek, while hi
heart gMellaa .n4 to bHrsting.
Farewell, Cau said George, MAKING a
effort to be cheful, and taking the oil,
mans hand affeelnatel J in his farewell
good old man. is not likely that W,
shall meet aga ia this world. | 90
know not whe but | feel assured thai
Providence wiRrect my steps. Nv trust
is in God. liz much | am indebted to
you, my kindI ID nurse and friend, I can
neither say q ever pay; but God who
knows all thi, knows this also; and you
will not 60 Ehout your reward. Cato.
take this to mother, whom | was not
permitted to-, (and he puta small lock-
ct into his h,) and tell her, Cato. it is
from her Chan son. Be faithful to the
last, and dotorget to pray still for nv
poor father. Perhaps God will ultimately
hear your prs for him as he did for me-
I shall norget,' said the old man.
Cato nevea rgets and if the blessed
Lord shorl l'nVert old master, then YOU
would con,ome again, and we should
be SO ha IN the Lord. O! master
George, chuP, cheer up little-'Who
knows butwill? {?
For a 9ent they wept together
They pre- eseach others hands in silence.
and separ to meet no more in this bad
world. 3farewell Of these Christians.
though 4 occupied the relationship to
each Opt master and slave, was the
spiritual well of brothers in the Lord
Jesus Cl
Sceaee this would appear perhaps
almostis.sioie to the cold and icy re-
gions % frlgId north. 1t is there, and
not in sunny SOUTH where the worst
forr1 Ovltude exists; where the poor
negrogs IN the slavish bonds of moral
and soroscrlptlon, and where the mea
gre orof freedom is made the specious
cover a more base and ignoble slave
ry thY known in the land of chivalry,
But Eal true 3on,therners, there lives
andy S@s 2 - S-4i+s-- &C >+7re. .plaiah
takght, independent of condition, to
lift4tortunate above the sense of de-
era and to make them feel, for the
mcsat least, that they are neither
frit nor forsaken.
Jorge crossed the style beyond the
gsllch was to separate him forever
frs pleasant childhood haunts, he
tI'nd gave one long, last, lingering
Pnd then, with eyes upturned to '
!, he breathed a prayer for the dear 7
p had left behind, and hurrying away, {
oon lost among the trees, and was I
ho more +
+ x. /;
sars rolled away, after the scenes which i
ave been describing, and little or v
tag had been known of the fate of the c
5Io convert, to either his parents or his
ffs: The ruel father had repented of I
FASH course towards his son, but IL was o
late; he was gone they knew not where e
'as he was lost. 1t is true, rumor 4
reached them, that he was in a distant d
/, and had entered the ministry of the a
rch OF his choice but so vague and Il
ertaln was the report that it obtained a
credence. Meantime, great chance Il
taken place. Time, with its mutations Ii
not passed lightly over the family Of n
proud old squire; but had continued IL
rigid claim until the splendid mansion W
yielded to the hand of decay, and had 81
ed from the tottering steps of its master n
confession that he too was descending D
ne grave. n
Id Cato had been called to his reward E,
S ago, and, faithful to the last, with his Z
g breath had besought his old master w
orglve George, and seek the same Sa- y,
r for himself The good old negro b,
cared for in his life, and in his death W
was not forsaken. Slave as he was dc
a tear was shed from white ewes ri,
n Cato died, while around his grave to
'st the entire village testified by their an
ence the respect they entertained for en-
loble worth. With the death of Cato tb
the trowns of fortune; the good an wi
had been summoned away, and now an
and only evil seemed to visit the
sion. Within month of each other
two lovely daughters were consigned ;s1
e tomb, and shortly after, as if Fate wi
d do It's worst, a flaw in the title to oc
state was discovered, and the mansion n
grounds passed into other hands, N.
rty now threatened to close the scene
b pride had first begun. How sad
er IS adversely. The aged couple. the ps
ITS Of George, now began to think Of do
$ which were once by them despised. JIr H.
thought brought pain, for it presented l.,
o their mind their cxpatriated son. nf
endld Church had sprang up, partly
'uits OF the camp meeting to which we
alluded, upon the very site of the en- is
ment, and thousands now met there it,
'rship God. Strange to tell, the pa
OF George, now childless, poor, and it /:
ate, in their feeble age, were often
among the congregation. inc
was near the close of the summer of an7
that it was announced that on a Ger.
sabbath celebrated minister from a all
It land, would preach in that church.
lame of the gentleman was not given.
lty then was just what it is now, and the