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 expectation of afudden fate: he trained it to arms in imple love and unaited protection,  flew to depoit her tender burden in the retreat  ditant afety: he flew in vain: the tempet  her and wept the child, unconcious of  from her folding arms, and dahed her hopes  comforts to the ground. She recovered, and to boom retored the pleaing charge: he  to ooth it with her voice; but it was  he felt it, and he found it cold: he creamed,  lamented, and he cured: nor could our  conole her orrows, our remontrances  train  violence, nor our authority uppres her. She felt like a mother, although an apa might ay he did not feel like a Chritian. a cold and illiberal diftinction! Give a Negro, and etablih him in either the principles obedience, or the knowledge of endurance, and  will not digrace that tenet which hall be  by practice. Her lamentations were aral, and of conequence affecting, and give depondency to a night that was already  mierable to bear an augmentation of orrow.

The darknes of the night, the howling of winds, the growling of the thunder, and the  flahes of the lightning that darted through  murky cloud, which ometimes burt forth with  plenitude of light, and at others hardly gave  lamination to brighten the terrified apect  the negroes; that, with cold and fear, were  around; the cries of the children who were  to the weather, and who (poor  had lot their mothers in the darknes and  of the night; and the great uncertainty of  and private ituation combined; could not fail  trike the oul with as deep as it was an  horror. In the midt of danger, in the a