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77 with him to the South. Eventually, by a stroke of Providence, Mr. Clay was brought to a sick bed, and death seemed inevitable. Bill knew he would be sold with other Slaves, at the death of his master, and what hands he should get into he could not judge, whether a Legree or a Haly; he thought it, therefore, not wise to wait the death of his master, consequently he took a free passage to Canada, where he could be his own master. I think, if left to their own choice, this would be the result of a majority of the exceptions before referred to: this evidently shewsshows [sic] it is the owners they are attached to and not the system. Allow me, kind Reader, to answer another objection of the opponents to Emancipation. "The lives of the owners would be in danger. They would wake up some morning and find all their throats cut." This absurdity finds no parallel in the annals of history. It assumes, "that the African, or Slave, when treated justly, will exhibit a vindictive spirit, which he will not when treated unjustly. When elevated to the blessings of freedom, he will thirst for human blood, which he does not do when crushed and cursed by Slavery; or, if so, it is merely to obtain his pristine liberty. At present, he witnesses continually his wife torn from his arms; sees his infants brought to the