ABOLITIONISM UNVEILED.



family servants crowd around him, shake the hand of
Massa David, while tears of joy flow down their checks.
After enjoying, for a season, the pleasures of homne, Da-
vid felt an irresistible impulse to pay a visit to his aged
uncle in Boone.
  "All!" says he to himself, "I have now arrived at
manhood. I have closed my collegiate course. I have
not sought 'shallow draug-hts,' which merely ' intoxicate
the brain,' but I have aimed. 'to drink deep of the Pierian
Spring.' I have long been poring over musty lore. It
is true I have retired from college with all the honors of a
regular graduation. As a scholar I stand on the highest
list; and yet I cannot say I am acquainted with the excit-
ing scenes of real life. I understand the events that have
transpired previous to my day better than I do the mighty
throes of the world in this age. I have traced mankind,
so far as history enabled me, from old Adam down to the
present century. Tihe multiplication of mankind, the rise
and fall of empires, the bloody revolutions of nations, and
the dread carnage of war, are all imprinted upon the tab-
lets of my memory in lasting characters. The nature of
man, as there developed, I fully comprehend. But as old
time drives his car forward, new inventions are made-
the social and inoral relations of our race are approximat-
ing to perfection. What is the extent of that approxima-
tion, I am not fully advised.
  "Upon the theater of life, I am now entering at a most
auspicious period I am persuaded. I am a citizen, not
merely of Mississippi, but of the United States-of this
great Federal Union-of this galaxy of States, whose stars
and stripes float proudly over every sea. I have been
reared in the sunny South, amid slavery, but that makes
no difference; I am hailed as a brother, as a citizen of this
great community, wherever I may travel, whether in the
North, East or West. A delightful thought! Here are
thirtv-one States, some of them empires within themselves,
containing over twentv-three millions of people, all comn-
bined under a Federal Head. For all national purposes
they are one people, guided by one will. Ali! here lies
the secret of our greatness.
  " The vast resources, the physical power of this whole



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