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56 the command of the driver, he moved slowly away; he stepped with much difficulty, from the weight of sorrow on his mind, and chains on his body. His wife cling to him with all the strength of a woman's muscles, and anxiety of a female heart. "Oh! my husband, My husband! My dear husband!" Alas! she was abruptly torn from his person. O, Heaven, witness this parting scene! Angels paint it on the scrolls of Eternity! Let Gabriel write it in the Book of God's Remembrance, that these guilty wretches may not escape the punishment which their sins justly merit. They tread upon ground Angels would tremble to approach. "What God has joined together let no man put asunder." Outraged humanity cries against the Slaveholder. Widows and orphan children will rise up to condemn him in the final account. It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Judgment than for the Slaveholder thus acting. "God is not in all his thoughts." This man travelled 1,500 miles to New Orleans, and was sold like a beast in the shambles. He prayed to God to provide a way for his escape, which prayer was answered, for he made his escape. He travelled night after night, living on spontaneous productions, (which are pretty plenty in warm climates), wading through creeks and marshes. When going through the marshes in the valley of Mississippi, the aligators would snap at him; their jaws, like two-feet