Year: 1870

ADAI1NO EDs


CHAPTER III.


. "Ofan the spots that Heaven has blest


The dearest place is home
Tis there the fond heart loves to rest,


And never more to roam,


While love plays round thesmiling hearth


IT'S Heavens own bliss enjoyed on earth ,


"Shall we return to our forsaken
home, my dear, or travel in search OF
some unrealiZed pleasureT


"Ah, husband, there is no spot on
earth so dear to me as home, and no
untried pleasure so hallOwed as my
duties there"


''Be as you will, your wishes are
my highest law, but can you not aug.
ment my happiness by point to some
thing / could do to make it more
pleasant for you? There is nothing ]
would not gladly perform"


"There is one blemish on your do
mestic Elysium which / feign would
see removed, but the remedying Of
the vihwould cost as great a sacrifice
as our promised Herodias."


''Name it'll will perform all you
ask, even to the half of my king
DOM"


1.-THE evil to which 1 allude is slav.
cry. can never be happy while
human souls are in bondage to me-"
"There is actually nothing that
could lift such burden from my soul
as to be rid of these slaves. ThS
chains press down into my own flesh
and make me wretched in the ex-
treme. But how shall it be effected
/ This is question that has troubled
me for months"


81 can see but one way and that is
to emancipate them"


"Have you ever thought of the i'm
mense wealth vested in this human
property ?"


"Yes, but who gave us the right Of
property in our fellow beings. If we
have unjust and unlawful gains, are
we not assured that wealth gotten by
dishonest means seldom fails to bring
sudden destruction. i often feel that
the Justice of our All.wise Father
will not permit us to continue long in
this SIM


''I feel this moment that 1 had
rather earn Iuy bread by the sweat of
my brow, than live on the earnings
of unpaid toll; and with your help,
before another sun shall set, every
slave own shall be free, and when il
rises to its course again shall light q
thousand now made freemen.n


HOh, 1 am. so happy to receive this
promise, and forever after no shadow
shall fall upon our hearth lest cast by
the Almighty, for we will wash our
hands in innocency.n .-.--....


The preceding conversation passed
between Mr.. and Mrs. Lazelle, just
before their return to their home, and
its import was carried out to the very
letter, and they removed the rest OF
their possession to the beautiful land oi
the Genesee Valley, and had Just time
to establish themselves on terms OF
equality with people of the North
when the whole country was convuls-
ed by the cannonading of Sumpter.-
Mr.. 1azelle was among the first to re-
sTnpd to the nations call, and his ac-
quaintance with the southern country
and the nature of the southern peO-
pie, rendered him an efficient officer
In the Federal army.


He was Joined in his brigade by Mr..
st. Clair, both of them holding high
offices of trust, nor did they betray
the high confidence reposed in them.


Mr.. Lazelle, at the head of a scout
ing party, sent out by the United
States to survey the enemy's out
posts, captured a foraging company
belonging to the confederate army
and brought them into the Union
camp. He aceidently discovered thai
one of the number was his old friend,
I Col. Granger, whose term at Wash
ington had expired. Mr.. Granger
stroYe earnestly to avert the doom
which he foresaw was about to fall
upon his country, and when called
upon to vote on the ordinance of Sec
cession, he spent a week in unceasIng
toll and sieepless anxiety to save the
/ honor of his State. But when it was
told him that all was lost he tainted,
and did not sufficiently recover from
I the effects of the stunning blow tC
leave his room for several days. He
! then tried TO persuade himself that
the matter would yet beadjusted ami
cably; that il could not be settled
J otherwise, Congress would arbitrats