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ever look down on man ; and the solitudeof the we cotched Molly. I thoughtthey 'd a had hei
all stripped up afore I coidd get 'em off. She
4c him !
dat ar time car's de marks o' dat ar spree yet."
never with such feeling as now :
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I reckon she will țo her grave,"said Legree.
"But now, Sambo, you look sharp. If the nigger
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The earth shall be dissolved like snow,
got anything of this sort going,trip him
The sun shall cease to shine ;
up."
But God, who called rne here below,
Shall be forever mine.
"Mas'r, let me lone for dat,"said Sambo.
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I '11tree de coon. Ho, ho,ho !"
This was spoken as Legree was getting on to
" And when this mortal lifeshall fail,
And flesh and sense shall cease,
his horse țo go to the neighboring town. That
I shall possess within the veil
night,as he was returning, he thoughthe would
A life of joy and peace.
turn his horse and ride round the quarters, see if all was safe.
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When we 've been there ten thousand years,
Brightshininglike the sun,
We 've no less days to singGod's praise
Than when we firstbegun."
Those who have been familiar with the religious
historiesof the slave population distance from the quarters,when he heard the
relations like what we have narrated are
very voice of some one singing Ịt was not a usual
common
among them. We have heard some
sound there,and he pausedto listen. A musicaj
from their own lips, very touchingand affecting
tenor voice sang,
"When I can read my titleclear
To mansions in the skies,
theypress into their service the outward I '11bid farewell to every fear,
senses,
And wipe my weeping eyes.
and make them givetangibleshapeto the inward
imagining. Who shall measure what an all-per-
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Should earth againstmy soul engage,
And
Spiritmay do with
hellish
these
darts be
capabilities of
hurled,
Then I can smile at Satan's
our mortality,
the ways in which He rage,
may encourage
And face a frowningworld.
the despondingsouls of the desolate'?
If the poor forgotten slave believes that Jesus
"Let cares like a wild delugecome,
hath appearedand spokento him, who shall contradict
And storms of sortow fall,
him ? Did He not say that his May I but safelyreach
mission,
my home,
in all
My God, my Heaven,
ages, was to bind my All."
up the broken-hearted,
and set at liberty them 'that are bruised ?
"So ho!" said Tsgree to himself,"he thinks
When the dim gray
of dawn woke the slumberers
so, does he ? How t hate these cursed Methodist
to go forthto the field, there was among those hymns ! Here, you nigger," he,coming suddenly
tattered and shivering wretches one who walked
with an exultant tread ; forfirmer than the ground
up this yer row, when
he trod on was his strong faith in Almighty, you ought to be in bed ? Shut yer old black gash
eternal love. Ah, Legree,try all your forces and get along in with you !"
now ! Utmost
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agony, woe, degradation, want, Yes, Mas'r,"said Tom, with ready cheerfulness,
and loss of all thingsșhall onlyhasten on the
as he rose to
process by which he shall be go in.
made a king and a Legree was provokedbeyondmeasure by Tom's
priest unto God !
evident happiness ; and, ridingup to him,belabored
him over his head and shoulders.
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There, you dog," he said," see if you
'11feel
one, ever-presentSaviour hallowed it as a so comfortable,"**fterthat!"
temple. Past now the bleeding of earthlyregrets
But the blows fell now only on the outer man,
; past itsfluctuationsof hope,and fear,and
desire ; the human will,bent,and bleeding, and
struggling long, was now entirely merged in the
divine. So short now seemed the remainingvoyage
of life, so near, so vivid,seemed eternal in his cabin,and he wheeled his horse suddenly
bless sdness, that life'suttermost woes fellfrom round,there passedthroughis mind one of those
him unharming.
vivid flashes that often send the lightning of conscience
All noticed the change in his appearance.
across the dark and wicked soul. He
Cheerfulness and alertness seemed to return to junderstood full Avell that it was God who was
him, and a quietnesswhich no insult or injurystandingbetween him and his victim,and lie
could ruffe seemed to possess him.
blasphemedhim. That submissive and silent
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What the devil 's got into Tom?" Legree said man, whom taunts,nor threats, nor stripes, nor
"to Sambo.
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A while
ago he was all down in cruelties, could disturb,roused a voice within
the mouth,and now he 's peartas a cricket." him, such as of old his Master roused in the
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Dunno, Mas'r;gwine to run off,mebbe.'" demoniac soul,saying, " What have we to dx"
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Like to see him trythat,*'said Legree,with with thee,thou Jesus of Nazareth? thou
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savage grin, " wouldn't we, Sambo?"
come to torment us before the time ?"
"Guess we would! Haw! haw! ho!" said Tom's whole soul overflowed with compassion
the so otygnome, laughingobsequiously. " Lord, and sympathyfor the poor wretches by whom he
de fun ! To see him stickin' in de mud, chasm' was surrounded. To him it seemed as if his life-
and tarin'throughde bushes,dogsa holdin' on
nightrung with the triumphantwords of a hymn,
which he had sung often in happierdays, but
character. The psychologist tells us of a
state,iu which the affections and imagesof the
mind become so dominant and overpowering, that
Erom this time,an inviolable sphereof peace
encompassed the lowlyheart of the oppressed
Lord,1 laughed fitto split,
It was a superbmoonlightnight, and the shadows
of the graceful China trees lay minutely
pencilledon the turf below,and there was thai
transparentstillness in the air which it seema
almost unholy to disturb. Legreewas at a little
out upon Tom, and raising his riding-whip,
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how dare you be gettin'
and not, as before,on the heart. Tom stood perfectly
submissive ; and yet Legreecould not hide
from himself that his power over his bond-thrall
was somehow gone. And, as Tom disappeared
sorrows were now over, and as if,out of that
strangetreasury of peace and joy, with which he