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Wlo, for Twenty-Eijlit Years, ei!*etl m ] '.'*./*./1,rf Mr. ('hiuitoii has n )w eouie out amonij; tlu^ Christian ^ . .,|Ue to solicit aid to build up his people out of the horrors and tor- tures of .suft'erni^ijf, aud ii ivS hoped the Christian People wrT uot fail to buy these books from the Poor Old Slave to heljj him to do the whole will of God. ■.i>"»*'k.'*.»'.«'w'k#'tj»*. PRICE, 35 CENTS. "W^<»>«''»^"*/«»l ''i» Prepared for the Press under Hij Own \ Eye and Direction. t3wi t^ tori bV Otfr*P«; Jt norNrr tTTT'T' IT wart A*.* «*,-»« M Bf- Ch C#'W* 'W* 'W* '''*«* "W* 11^ "^^ '4P' ^W*- '''ift*' ^W* '^^ '■' ■•r %r ••*' %# \ h »j:> '/ '© THE LIFE OF Lewis Charlton A POOR OLD SLAVE, Wlo, for Tf Bitj • EiiM Years, k!!ei*etf ill C^i ;■« ■V<'\.'>.^.**k*«\«»S<'^/^ Prepared for the Press under His Own Eye and Dhectlon, w'<,.K»k/"v/*<-(*v«'».'^.'^.» Printed by PITTS & CROCKET, Fredericton, N. B. © •"fsi' \ ■"■■"^1 Pitts & Crocket, Publishers, Printers & Bookbinders Fredericton, New Brunswick. THE LIFE OF Lewis Charlton People often say to me, " Well, slavery is a thing of the past and what has heen done cannot now bo helped, so what is the good of talking and writing about it? " My answer is that all history is a thing of the past and yet people write and study it and consider well the lessons it may teach. The old story of Israel's bondage in Egyj)t is so old that it is obscure from very age and yet our Sunday School books repeat the tale. Our Simday School children are told over and over again how Egypt's cruel kings enslaved the \ n 3 3 -^" Ancient Jews and how by Divine Agency they were led out of bondage. We linger over the pages that tell how the Jews sntfeved captivity in Babylon and were in the order of Providence restored to their homes. Why then should you think it of less interest to read how five millions of slaves in this nineteenth century, in this Christian republic, suffered the horrors of cap- tivity, and we?*e led out to freedom by the same hnnd that released the Jews from Egyptian and Assyrian tyrants. Is God dead that we cannot see His hand in this work? In the v/ords of a prophet of old " Wns y.f,^e'-~ U Into Geor'-ia when I was an inlanl 11 my "'o™' * S,^, He was ofpnre African blood. Ifa fother, ariiis. XXV "« r -f ,.r>»«^niKfir «t the Manuel Charlton, died since, I can remeniber, at the Manuel unaruou, ui^v. ^.w.^^, ~ pat ..ge of 121 y-- ,_„,'- ' -- Xf^hei"; :£en'ler;'^a1it.rbo in- Africa, and W to teU The st.uT how he was enticed with many others aboard a °lvo lip and thus torn i-way from^ father and mother. Vwas-bon. on the estate ot Mr. Ig-iatms iS who was a kind-hearted man, but his w.te ,™s ^violiit unfeeling woman, who plied the lash m the most cruc manner to the backs of the female slaves. From the time when 1 was two weeks old my mother «S forced to leave me iu her miserable quarters to rifift-femy elf as best 1 could all day U.ng while she w"s kept at the elbow of her mistress. All I snflmH. L those days neither I nor anyone else can ever te.l ; Life of Zetcia CharUon. but this much I know, t,b.it one cold day in winter beia« but fourteen months old and loft Im^J^Z] my mother returned at night to find Imih of my fee ftozen sfff as stones. She''did iho \^»l she knew rm ut warm poultices on my feet, and when she t^"k ^.Tti" r'" *••« '""™"'g my toes all eame off onl^e wo, Ketl at ah tnl I was six years old. My mistress was heS,^"Le": 1^1 *'*'''"'"^' "'f «""'-^ and Zugh -rr 'If «/""<»-J '"'« throS ll trd nt; r'Ll that she had done wrong; indeed when she saw m ifeet many years afterwards she laughed in my f»™ a^d said 'they looked Hked he; old guS-shoes 7 Th^ fet event I can remember reacile8"'^ lok fifty eicrht yea™ [when 1 wa^ aeyen years old. I can recall the picture i was placed on an auction block for sale. I recoliect^hat my mother was crying, and took off my old socks »nd exposed my poor crippled stumos ofVo in the^;:.i^ hope that no one would buy me, but bonght 1 wat and separated from my mother for the first tfme. My new nTtJt "l*""."^"''. ,*" '"""h me to work at his trade! He hyed about six miles from my old homo ; my mother was obhged to go with me to the new homrto^^ify my ervnig. I can recollect it to this day. My iCer little bed for me in their own sleeping room. They had no children, and I was their only slave. Fw three years I remained irith them and all the time had no reason to complain. They used me as wellTsth^ would have treated a child of their own blood. But a ■nam life of Lewis Charlton. dark day came. My good mistress d,cd and my master sold all and w^nt away. I may ^ '"'••"j"? h«™ ^h"^ mv first master had provided that I should he free wLnfwas twenty eight ye..rs old .. th». I was aWvay^ sold with a perfect knowledge of this tact and add tol th s mv crippled condition Tnd it will be seen «hat .n a monry point of veiw 1 was not worth n,uch care or So^n and no pains taken U> P^-- "/^^f^^X advanced >.ge. The next change of masters put me m the hands of a per-on named William Farnestock. I say ™ for Ftdoes not seem right to call euch a creature rZ" He was a tanner by trade and a or^e p^ me I into the tannery to work. I was but a child, and yet be Could set me'to heavy wor. that I/«« »"^M%t° perform. Many .. time I have been forced mto the ice-cold vats ,ts I tugged at the heavy h,de.. He would call me to him, strip me and be:>t me with a Twhtdc whip till the blood ran in streams from my back So often did he do this that for months ""d ™o.ths I w,« unable to sleep on raj hack. The wretched brnte seemed to take great satisfaction in flogging me, a poor orwleJ child. " His wife wished to be kind to me but itwL little she could do ^^tth such a hasWd who seemed determined to make my Ij^a^ "^'*«''^,f '^^^^ could make it. I was the only slave he owned and it :eemsrif my poor back had to take all that he would have bestowed uoon more had they been m his powe.. Often have I been forced by him to take off mjo^^ frozen t.owsei-s (yes frozen so stiff they would stand alone) and take his cowhiding and then di-ess again as best 1 could with icy clothes and go to work. It » every word as true as God made mj, and yet it was all done in a christian land before the eyes of othe.s 1-1 y -Wf^ of Leims OhaHlon. tiy it .8 I hlve^, ;"! .-r L;' h" 'f *""«"-'■ Let them pled, let them 1.0 C If ,1 • °'- """ '"■"'•'"^ "'"' «ip- dntion and th^y t,n^Mf „t h^ '" .'gnoHtnce and deffre- that have been broulh fi,™ ^ V " *'"''^ °* Scripture ed crime. ^ "'^'^'"'' *" ^"'^t^'" this wi'etdi- would thatmen V-Id ,in! ' ""' = ,," Whatsoever ye that is to deny thM^ i ' ^'""^^ ^""" ">'■*'. ««d ish or me to .tnn f "'en- a position too fool- WiA tli^ c Zl'm^ltr Tr* '" "'T' "■ years — v*.n,.oTu ^ remained nearly throe fte a sS's lie 3 l/'v "••"■"• . ^''^«» i <•-- full ofhone th!» "'"^ "^"''""^ "f ™« »0"n 1 was at leavVi:.tTeHngSr fc ^^""^ 7"'^ City. He ownld f J''*""»«^«ttinser, of Fi-ederick miles out of town W "'' "'.*''™ "■«• " f*™ ^igW had no cWldtn Hf^r"""* "';, "'^'^ «'''^'^« ™ted and scarred are the homes of pain. Xio-hts are often sleepless because of them. So I t>*an- not forget my cruel bondage even if I would do s). At this time my mother was a free woman by provision of Mr. Davis. She earned a scanty liv'ng, washing and ironing, and for nine long months she nursed me with all a mother's tenderness. Gettinger never came to ask after my conditio i, nor s • far as I know, did he ever make any cljiim to mo Seeing this my mother thought no one would distUiO me and I would be left to herself. It was a hope like mos.. others she had en- tertained, doomed to disappointment. A sjmi of my first master, Mr. D.ivis, came to my mother's house and told her that 1 was to bo sold on the place of Thomas Davis some miles away. t do rot know to this day how that came a!)out. . I cannot see what ■0 f Life of Lewis Charlton, •? 11 claim the Davis family had nf)on me. My nothcrwas very wretched when she found that her po.ir !;iri?e hoy was to he torn away from Her. I was ordered to !i;5s uii'overel with ti.jsh, and he knew it all H • w »uld (»rten call m 5 to him. strip me and cowhid * wv^ unni u'cifully and to this day I cannot ttdl wh it it was for [ wa^ ohedient, so!)er ••nd industrious, a id it nr.ist h ive been that he loved to punish me because I was in his power. I w .s about seventeen years o I. savv my m >ther but onej after going on his fiajc. Sir; WL*n^ to Pennsylvania with u second husband and ! never saw her afterwards. I have tried every nivMU-i to find her but in vain. About this time ni\' (udy sistc was sold to a man who lived far awav uud tint was the hist I ever knew^ about her. So I was loft entirely alone in the world, l^or three years I remained with' Mr. Davis ; then he sold me back to David Richardson. Then I fell into the hands of a good man. Fie trouted me with kind- ness and showed himself a good deal of the cliristian he professed to be ; ho never whipped me and deserves the name of a kind master. I remained with him till I was twenty-eight years of age, and then I was free. I had gone to the Court House and learned by the papers deposited there by Mr. Davis, my tirst master, that the 17th day of April my bondage would end. For years I had looked forward for this time to coukj and you can well imagine the joy 1 felt when at last the time rolled around and released me from all huma)i masters. A few days befoi e my birthday Mr Kichard- &on told me that according to arrangements made long ago I would be my own master in a day or two, and since it was so near at hand I might now c(>nsider my- self at liberty to go where J pleased. I was free but I was crippled, ignorant and without a cent of money. During my long stay with him I had frozen my feet and legs twice, not because of his carelessness but being fiozen before, they would freeze agjiin before I was hardly aware of the fact. From this cause I was unable to walk for many months at a time, and during this period I was taught to knit by the c«:)lored women, and to this day I knit my own sock J, mittens, fi^loves and the like. It was about this time, when 1 was ail alone in the wo»ld, when 1 had no kind and loving mother to teach me lessons of truth, purity and wisdom, no sympathetic father to take me by the hand and guide me in the right path, no 'loviniT sister to embrace nic and s^wak words of comfort and elit'cr. ; But whik^ fiistcncd with the eliains of shiveiy like 'Daiiiei in the lion's den, wliile siitlering terrible afllic- lions, oreater than Job, bowed dow)i wirh sorrow and unief, vhjle lr)rtiire'i in mind, body and soul, that 1 resolved to seek aid from a Gud on high, that he| miiiht save my soul from torment, and 1 eanic lo VAmst and asked him in mercy to take niy feet from the 'niry clay and [)la!it them upon the rock of eternal ajit'S ; and to this day I am h)oking up to lliiu as my only hope and support while bi. tiling with the stern realities of life. I rc'-all to mind, right here, a terrible scene that 1 v,-itnessed on a phuitation belonging in Mr. Bris, who owned about ninv liimdred slaves. At this time the slaves did not know how to run away ; they would run to Iho woods, remain there and come back. One (lav three men ran away from the plantation and re- mjmie bought n|) all the slaves they could, tathers. mothers, brothers, sisters, friends, bai)cs and gray haired old men, had them ;dl bron<]^ht to the j:iil and haniicuffed toi^ether with an iron collar around their necks, with in>n bolts riveted to the collars, then fastened to th( chains on the handcuffs, then in this condition thev were obliged to walk one hundred and fifty miles to the vessel where the}^ were shipped to South Cajolina, to be sold and suffer the pangs of slavery. It was while witnessing such cold b'ooded scenes as this that caused me to cry out in the agony of my heart, — Hear me, O ye heavens, bear witness ye mur- muring streams, hear me ye hosts of heaven, bear witness thou inspirer «)f eternal tru h, thou maker and U{)holder of all things, that America has sealed her doom. This guilty nation must fall -, Go.d will utterly forsake the American Union in its guilt ; he has heard the wails of millions who have gone up before me, a^ witness to the nation's hy[)()cricy and oppression. I feel an iiispiration in my soul. How dore ye, O ve freeman, crucify the Goddess of Liberty. How dure ye follow in the footsteps of the ancient despotisms which, forgetting their (rod, were utterly overthrown. Did not Gv'd destroy them ? Did he not sweep them away with the breath of destruction? (Jan thou, boasted land of exact justice, equul rights ^ud freedom to all, sustain thy crimes against a holy and ju'st God when he pronounces thy doom ? Woe to them tha . I Life of Lewis Chcylton. 15 convert the imago (»t* God into a thinfr causiDg agony and desolation, sorrow and death to millions ! Althouirli I was free at last vet I was not allowed to go out of the state and return. If I did so 1 was liable to he taken up and sold again. I packed up >ny cloth- ing and went a little distance to the house of an uncle who was also free. I made that ph'ce my home for h few months, and then turned my steps toward the City of Baltimore, where 1 hoped to get work. [ re- mauied in ttie city a few months and kept at work all the time. Then I wont ur, into Harford County where I was employed by a man named Thomiis Treat to work on his farm. I remuined with him two mor.ths. Next I hired with Elisba Berry, a colored man, and chopped wood for two or three months. Then I hired with Geoige Burroghs, a stone cutter, imd worked with him at his trade. H-* was to give mo one hun- dred dollars a year and teach me his business. I worked a year ; then he stopped work and I never got all of my pay. Mv next emiilover was Isaac Roo-crs, at Deer Creek, near where I had at last worked. He owned larire inm works for the manufacture of pig iron. I was set to feed the furnace while in operation, and the rest of the time I was engaged in chopping wood and doing clK/re- "K)ut the house and [)lace. The first year I was with him 1 m.irried a free woman who lived with Mr. Rojicrs. I then rented a house and for the first time in my life I had a home and shelter of my own. For sixteen years 1 lived with Mr. Roofers. He was a kind, considerate employer, but he had many rough men about him who ill-treated me in various ways. Mr. Rogers broke up his business and went away and -# ' i nil .A IG Life ^f Leuus Charlton. tliLs left mo to Hcek oniploymcnt ui^-.iiu. "' At ooco I secured vvoikwith William (jlnddin- who lived ne.ir by. Me owned a Ijirgo tarm, wa^ 'ninarried. and niv wife was a.l8() hirod a.s hoii.seiTeepfu-. I was to have sixteen dollars a month, rent five, and he wm* to ho.'uVI with me for six dollar., m month. I worked with him tor three years, until he was ma,ni6d. ^\'hen he set- jtled he owed me two hundred and thirtv-fivc dollnrs lie was a misen.hle eheat juid would not pnv ,ne fo.- the wood I had found him for ihve veavs. I'sued the d(3mand and after seven yea.-.s in the Courts 1 lost it beeanse I was a poor Idnek man and he a well-to-do ' white sconndnd. I bouoht seven neres of Innd about this time m the neiohborhood and built a small house on It, which 1 still own. The land has on it rich de- l)osits of chrome, and some day will be o^' considerable value _ For three years I worked about the i)Iace at one thing and another till 18()2 when I moved to West- imnster some sixty miles away. I found employmehi tiiere, and remained at work in that pLi<'e for noar y fourteen yeais. ~ In this i(»wn there are about five hundred cohered people, nnd about twelve hundred white people The colored people were not allowed in the white schools «mi are not yet allowed : neither are the colored peo- ple permitted to enter the churches. Ahhouo-h I wh unschooled myself, it gave mv, great j.ain tcf see my l)i'ethren grow uf) in ignorance. Years before I w.-ks a free man 1 was converted. My reb'gious experience had oeen a won(U'rful comfort to me. It sustained i-- in hours of suffering and filled me with a glorious hope of deliverance not only h'Om all human bonda.-e but Irom this poor body of sin and death. 1 had been able ■HlBaMnu^ I # 9 le I ■^ifs of Lewis Charlton, 17 to see beyond the stormes of this life to the blessed hiiveii of rest where there is no night and the tears are A'iped away frr>ni all e^es. It is not to be wondered it that I greatly desired to see churches erected where .)nr people could hear the word of life, and be instruc- ted in relijrious truth. I conversed with other inter- ested people and we decided to niake an elQfort to or- •ranizedand build up a church. The white Methodist minster was c^dlad in. He organized us into a religi- ous body, and gave us credentials. Five of us start- ed out to raise iunds in the north. Four of them soon become discouraged and returned. I went to Boston in the year 186() where I was so substantially helped that I soon had a thousand dollars to forward for the building of a church and two teachers secured. They went to Westminster and there was a good school for four years that finally failed for lack of money. I was again sent out to collect funds and the school was reviv- ed, but for lack of all asistunce from the state or town, and vant of money it has been closed for a good while. I have continued my work to build another church. In three years of wandering and working 1 have raised five hundred dollars, and the second church is )iow be- ing slowly built. The hard times have been much against me, but for all that I have toiled on in the midst of disappointment, in a strange land and among strange faces, 1 cannot now expect to do much more for churches and schools. I must try to do something to sustain myself when age has unfitted me for all work. Even now I cannot command much wages ; my lameness makes my movemeiits slow, and during a dav I cannot accomplish much at any work that I am i e- Hi 18 IJ/c of Lewis Charlton . used to. I make a little from the sale ot this emal: hook. liut I am ytill working, toiling, al hough my path- way is strewn with thon.fe, and not flowers, the hbck cloud of prejudice hangs over me, men try to hlackeu and defime my character, and crush me, because they have the power in their hands, but I will fight my way through till I die, striving to raise means°to educate and make christian men and women out of the now raw niaterial. And I call upon all noble, honest, christian men and women who are interested in every good work of moral and christian reform, to aid me in my honest efforts to boneQt a race that has been trampled upon worse than any that the sun has ever shown upon. We sustain rola.ions to fho wh(»le human family ; we are children of one common parent, we are the heirs of one common inheritance ; g<> to the wildest spot oi> earth, and find the blackest character which exists within the limits of the race, and will you not find in that dark character a relative, and brother, Ethio- pia's son, ai ho lifts his hands to God. The wild Karen, as he rushes from his dark jungle, ready tor blood, the child of Erin as he c«»mes in ra the wants and woes of life. Thanks be to God, that we occupy a spot on which intelligence, morality and religion have shed their mild- est beams, and exerted their most happy influences, consequently we can look around and behold every- where the objects of pity and commiseration, ignor- ance and healhenish degredation. arrest the attention everywhere ; and pathetic appeals are made from every quarter. The object for which we live, is not to secure our own gratification, and minister to our own increasing desires. The good of others should btj one of the most prominent objects of our lives, an object never to be forgotten. He who has never felt his bosom thrill with pity at the recital of scenes which ary transpiring upon the earth ; he who has not gazed with feelings of deep commiseration upon the mil'dons who sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and has never made an eff'ort to send them the means of civilization, and the religion of the cross, tnust be a stranger to the emotions which will crowd up(m the human mind. He who understands his re- lations to his fellow cr^^.tures should be willinsr to I tvoknowledge them. Anv man who casts his influence aorjijnst a hoIiIa jiii miasiop'iry enterprise, casts it not only agr.inst tie salvation of the heathens, but ajrainpt the advanee- ment and progress of civilization, he is an enemy of his race, and forfeits his claim to the name of man. There are a great many good men who seem to feel that they are under no obligation to aid in the ele- vation of the colored race ; they tunik because the slave is free, and that his fetters have been buret usunder tha« the work is all completed, and have un absurd idea thuc they are able to built themselves up to a liigher state of civilization, culture, retinement, morality and religion, bnild churches^ schoolhouses, and educate the colored lace, by iheii own unaided etforts. They say they have done ^heir part, they have given their freedom, now let ti.em shift for themselves. But is it so? God and sufF3ring millions give a negative reply. Men have no right to rest until want is driven from our borders; until virtue is respected and vice hated ; until labor receives its due reward ; until honest, intelligent, worthy colored men are re- spected whbtever may be their pecimiary circuia- stances ; until general intelligence shall be a character- istic of the people. Men have no right to rest from toil until the millioiw? » of liberated freemen, who to-day groan upon southern j soil, are free in mind and thought ; until the spirit ui' prejudice is eradicated from the bresists of men ; until bloodshed and cruel oppression are done away ; they have no right to cease from toil until the thrones of tyrants are demoli^ihed, until aristocracies of birth, blood and wealth, arc buried in one common grave, they have no right to rest from toil, until all over this ist tlie Ivnnce- Biny of f ninn. to feel 16 ele- s IS almost painful when once more allowed to enjoy it. W - have so long been treated as things that when we are elevated to the rank of citiz-nship we find it hard to exercise its privileges as wisely and well as would like. We have known neither the educational ad- vantages of schools nor the religious enlightenment of christian teaching. We have not even been allowed to pick up the crumbs that fell from the spiritual tables of our masters. We were set free on the soil of our oppressors, without money, without land or property o. any kind, destitute of schools and churches, and forced to meet on every hand the scornful contempt of the men whose grasp had been wrenched away h-om us b)' the shear force of arms. Then I say while in one sense (a legal one) we were free, in another sense we were still dependent upon our former masters. In the eyes of the law we were equal, yet by the force of circumstances we were hal/ m bondage and in a large measure this is still true. Then surely it is the duty of all good cil.. .^s, all right-hearted people everywhere to aid us in becoming free, not only in »* Word but in deed, and in truth." I We are anxious to have homes of our own, aud in the midst of them to have schools and churches as our i- ^'^fe of Lewis Charlton, 25 white I)rcll)]f.n liavo T^xr +i. ^~~" l>eeame u.sel',,: X;n. in if ""T' "'« ™» «oo„er, ?voic rud,. '.:u-baria„«1n a'e AWein" •?'"' '^»'T''"''«>W j'nxions to leara any hin! „?,* ""' °'''/ ''o-'^ly Nt pod oitize,,., of tho nation Vfycrr;;T;""''-^ "■«' l)ored «-c ai-« not freemen l„.t fi^'^f ".'''^ remem- omaucipated slaves t^e I, t""' ^^« '"e ''"t |«..d left uswhere we loIer''''f ,°"'''"'- ^^'^'^^A f^houlders «o l<.ncr bent toll '''''"' ?"' P""'"- ^^''tb h-e eo„!r. not stand e,"c°vt I """'""' '""•^«" "'at ' only one sufferer, >n ti f "^ l". , ,"" V""'?"'^''- ^ «'" Kavel while I ean tba ^^r^^^:f i''»,«^ ^l jimong our white brethren n,.,vtl '""' ™''dy liandsi jouse when too intirm to he^n S}"'' ^'^'"r"" l^"' these little books that I cinTll'^ „ ^'"■''' ""<= "'1 to me that (he bnyewili not f i"'""' .'"'""'"'"■<"' fnjneh to hope that'h mL « ,i,'Tt 'win'n m'' ""* ^"^ ills time in vain. 1 ti,oi,„l,t ;, , ^ ' , ""' '""'e spen. and value to the '>o<,I f 5 v T"f "^''^ ^"""^ '"^Vesti Nvere added to my tort .,1 '''"'','.''''^™'^ on slavery will fin<] themand^ I 1 op'e o iri-r"^'^ "'.<' """^ come ,0 the end of my S- 1 ve w".f- "^^ ^ '""'^ to the kind IWidr'Le fh f ?■ ^^ '"^ "'""y thanks creatures to aid me o.d tf ''•1 """r,'' '">- '•''"o" 8«n,e hand ^vill .'„ dc me 1 , T\ """^ ''"J^^' "'"t "«' and i-ainiiil car,^ ly pll^mt^ ^^^ '" "'« ""^ "^ ''"■« 'ong , •"■-"Q THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS, SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE. Gone, gone — sold and gone To the rice-twamp, d?«rk and lone, Whore the slave whip ceaseless swings. Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fevei demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air. Gone, gone — sold and gone To the ricc-swamps dark and lone. From Virginia's hills and waters — ^^'oe IS me, my stolen daughters. Gone, gone — sold and gone To the rice- swamp, dark r.nd lone. There no mother's eye is near them. There no mother's ear can hear them , Never when the torturins: lash Seams their backs with many a gash. Shall a mother's kindness bless them Or a mother's arms caress them. Gone, gone — sold and gone To the rice-swamp, dark and lone. From Virginia's hills and wate.3 — Woe is me, my stolen daughters. Gone, gone — sold and gon<^ To the )ice-swamp, dark and lone, O, when weary, sad and slow From ♦he fields af night the- ^o Faiiit with toil and rucked with pain, To their cheerless homes ao-ain, There no brothers voice shall greet them There no father's welcome meets them. ' Gone, gone — sold and gone To the rice-swamp, dark and lone From Virginia's hills and waters -1 Woe is me, my stolen daughters. Gone, gone -^ sold and gone To the rice-swamp, dark and lone, From the tree whose shadow lay, On their childhood's path of play From the cool spring where they drank — Rock and hill and rivulet bank From the solemn house of prayer And the Holy Counsel there. ' Gone, gone — sold and gone To the rice-swamp, dark and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, * Woe is me, my stolen daughters! John G. Whittier. THE QUADROON GIRL. The slaver in the broad lao-ooa Lay moored with idle sail ; He waited for the risitg inoon And for the evening gale. Under the shore his boat was tied And all her listless orew, a- ■i5 2S Life of Lewis VJiavlloi}. Wutclicd the f^r'W a)li<>';itor slide Into the still bayou. The planter under his roof of thatch Smoked thoughtfully and slow ; The slavers thumb was on the latch, He seemed in hasto to go. Before them with her face upturned In timid attitude, Like one halt curious, half amazed, A Quadroon Maiden stood. Her eves were lara:e and fidl of li":ht, t. err * — Her arms and neck were bare, No garment save a kirtle bright, And her own Ion 2' raven hair. The soil is barren — the form is old. The thotightful planter said, Then looked upon the slaver's gold. And then upon the maid. His heart within him was at strife With such accursed gains, For ho knew whose passions gave l:er life, Whose blood ran in her veirid. But the voice of nature was too weak ; He took the i>litterin2: "'old ! Then pale as death grew the maiden's cheek. Her hand as icy cold. The slaver led her from the door. He led her by the hand To be his slave and paramour In a strange and distant land. 9 I \ @