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Even the hard-heartedtrader was touched when he finds them selling body, blood and
with her sad fate, and we are credibly informed
bones,of his own people ? And is the
that he said he was sorry
he had Christianchurch, which justifies this enormous
taken her.
which has used the awful
system,"
Bruin " Hill wrote to New York that
the girlEmily was dead. The Quaker, selling and trading the souls of men,
thischurch the bride of Christ? Is
William Harned,went with the letter, to
break the news to her mother. Since she
had givenup all hope of redeeming her
daughter
she had been soldțhe helpless
drooped
longer lifted up her head,
any
from the dreadful doom to which
mother had
like a stricken woman. She no
interestin life.
or seemed to take
When Mr. Harned called on her, she
asked,eagerly,
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Have you heard anything from my
name of her Redeemer to sanction the buying,
she one
with Christ, even as Christ is one
with the Father ? 0, bitter mockery !
Does this church believethat every Christian's
body is a temple of the Holy Ghost?
Or does she think those solemn words were
idle breath,when, a thousand times, every
day and week, in the midst of her,is this
temple set up and sold at auctionțo be
bought'by any
who has money to pay
godless, blasphemousman,
for it!
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children,rather
daughter? "
As to poor Daniel Bell and his family,
Yes,I have," was the reply, " a letter whose contested claim to freedom was the
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from Bruin " Hill."
beginning of the whole trouble, a few members
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And what is the news ? "
of it were redeemed, and the rest were
He thought best to give a direct answer, plunged into the abyss of slavery Ịt would
Emily is dead.''''
seem as if this event, like the sinking of a
The poor mother claspedher hands,and, ship,drew into its maelstrom the fate of
lookingupwards,said, " The Lord be
every unfortunate beingwho was in itsvi-
thanked ! He has heard my prayers
at
A poor, honest,hard-working last!"
man, of the name of Thomas Ducket,had
And, now, will it be said this is an exceptional
a wife who was on board the Pearl. Tom
case happens one time in a was supposed to know the men who countenanced
thousand? Though we know that this \% the enterprise, and his master,therefore,
the foulest of falsehoods, and that the case is determined to sell him. He brought
only a specimen of what is actingevery day him to Washington for the purpose. Some
in the American slave-trade, yet, for argument's
in Washington doubted his legalrigh to
sake,let us, for once, admit it to bring a slave from Marylandfor the purpose
be true. If only once in this nation,under of sellinghim,and commenced legal
the protection of our law,a Christian girlproceedings
to test the matter. While they
had been torn from the altar and the were pendingțhe counsel for the master
communion-table, and sold to foulestshame told the men who brought action against
and dishonor,would that have been a lighthis client that Tom was anxious to be sold ;
sin? Does not Christ say, "Inasmuch as that he preferred beingsold to the man who
ye have done it unto' one of the least of had purchased his wife and
these, ye have done it unto me
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? 0, than to have his libertyỊt was well known
that Tom did not wish to be separated words of woe for !"
thee,America words
of woe for thee, church of Christ ! Hast his family, and the friends here,confiding in
thou trod them under foot and trampledthe representations made to them, consented
them in the dust so longthat Christ has to withdraw the proceedings.
Some time afterthis,theyreceivedletters
cinity.
forgotten ? In the day of judgment
every one of these words shall rise up, from poor Tom Ducket, dated ninetymiles
living and burning, accusingangels to above New Orleans,complainingsadlyof
witness against thee. Art thou,0 church his condition, and making piteousappeals
of Christ! prayingdaily,
to hear from them respecting his wife and
Thy kingdom
come" ? Darest thou pray, "Come, Lord children. Upon inquiry, nothing could be
Jesus,come quickly"? 0, what if He learned respecting They had been
should come ? What if the Lord,whom ye sold and gone,
and gone,
one
seek șhould suddenlycome into his teni knew whither ; and as a punishmen to
l'l If his soul stirredwithin him Tom forhis contumacy in refusing givethe
when he found within his templeof old name of the man who had projected those that changedmoney, and sold sheepexpedition
the Pearl, he was denied
and oxen and doves,what willhe say now the privilege of going off the place, and was