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112 to the ferryman, said, "If you do not proceed I will shoot you. " The ferryman finding himself between two fires said, "I will die doing right." He went on, and in a few minutes the Slave was beyond the grasp of the Tyrant. David very appropriately declares "God will judge the poor and needy, He shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor."

I would rather be in the condition of the Slave than the Slaveholder when God shall avenge himself on the evildoer—and the Slaveholder is one. "He shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that has no helper. He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight." The Slave is poor and needy—God delivers him from the iron heel of inhuman oppression. His retributive justice will not always be shown in silence, but will eventually wake as from an ominous dream, and break upon the head of the guilty Slaveholder, like the thunderings of a cataract or the roarings of the Niagara. Sometimes Slaves that are invalids take it into their heads to escape. A woman who had a husband with only one leg, managed with the assistance of some good friends to have him removed to Canada; her master flogged her every day during an entire week for the purpose of