UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

mother,son,
168 KEY TO UNCLE TOM S CABIN.
Jenny
Lind Goldschmidt.
Some of the ladies who listenedto this
demption of the remainingtwo of her
family was soon on foot. It may
be in-
to know that the subscription list
was headed by the lovelyand benevolent
Pray :ay for lor you! /" she sne said,earnestly.
teresting
can't helpit." She
"
" "
touchingstorywere so much interestedin
Mrs. Edmondson personally, theywished to The
have her daguerreotype ; both that all those friends, in different parts of
theymightbe strengthened refreshed
by the sightof her placidcountenance, and the redemption of these children,
thattheymight see the beautyof true goodness
are at last free !
beamingthere.
She accordingly went to the rooms with
them,with all the simplicity of a littlechild. to them :
"
0," said she,to one of the ladies, "you
can't think how happy it's made me to I have seen the Edmondson parents, Paul and
get his wife Milly.
here,where everybodyis so kind to me !
free Edmondsons,
daughter, the
Why, last night, when I went home, I was so after the great era of freelifecommenced,while
happy I could n't sleep. I had to go and yet the inspiration
tell my
happy I was."
A
Saviour, over and over again,how
ladyspoketo her about readingsomething.
"
Law bless you, honey ! I can't
read a letter."
"Then," said another lady, "how have
you learned so much of God, and heavenly
things?"
"
Well,'pears like a giftfrom above."
"
Can you have the Bible read to you ? "
but
"
Why, yes ; Paul, he reads a little,
then he has so much work all day, and
when he gets home at nighthe's so tired !
and his eyes
is bad. But then the Sperit
teaches us."
"
Do you go much to meeting?"
"
Not much now, we live so far. In
"
Indeed I shall,
then,raising
her finger, said,in an emphatic
tone, peculiar to the
"
old of her race, Tell
you what ! we never gets no good bread
ourselves till we beginsto ask for out
brethren."
writer takes this opportunity to inform
the country,who generously contributed for
that they
The followingextract from the letter
of a ladyin Washington may be interesting
very day
was on them, while the
mother's face was all lightand love,the father's
eyes moistened and glistening with tears, the
son calm in conscious manhood and responsibility,
the daughter(not more than fifteen years ola,
I think)smiling a delightful appreciation of joy
in the present and hope in the futurețhus suddenly
and completely unfolded.
Thus have we finishedthe account of one
of the families who were taken on board the
Pearl. We have another history
give,
to which we cannot promiseso fortunatea
termination.
Among
CHAPTER
up, bottle it up ! ' 0,1 often tell my children,
church ; but her heart yearnedafter hei
'
Bottle it up, bottleit up
! ' "
widowed mother and after freedom,and so,
When the writer came to partwith the on the fatal night when all the other poor
"
old ladyșhe said to her : Well,good-by, victims sough the Pearl țhe child Emily
my dear friend; remember and pray for
me."
VII.
those unfortunates guiltyof loving
freedom too well,was a beautiful young
winter I can't never. But, 0 ! what meetings
quadroongirl,named EmilyRussell,whose
I have had,alone in the corner,
"
my
mother is now livingin New York. The
Saviour and onlyme!" The smile with writer has seen and conversed with her. She
which these words were spoken was a thingis a piouswoman, highlyesteemed and re-
to be remembered. A littlegirl,daughter
a member of a Christian church.
of one of the ladies, made some rather By the availsof her own industry she pur-
severe remarks about somebodyin the daguerreotype
her freedom,and also redeemed from
rooms, and her mother checked bondage some of her children. Emilywas a
her.
residentof Washington, D. C.,a placewhich
The old ladylooked up, with her placidbelongs not to any state,but to the United
smile. " That puts me in mind,"she said, States ; and there, under the laws of the
"
of what I heard a preachersay once. United Statesșhe was held as a slave. She
'
My friends,' says he, ' if you
know of anything
was of a gentledisposition and amiable manners;
that will make a brother's heart glad; she had been early touched with a sense
run quick and tell it ; but if it is something
of religious things, and was on the very
that will only cause a bottle it point of unitingherself with sigh,' a Christian
spected,
chased
went also among them.
How theywere taken has already been