ABOIMONISM UNVEILED.



will need much repose. I will not trouble you now with
the important matters weighing heavily upon my mind.
As you doubtless will spend with me the whole summer,
we shall have ample time to go through the discussion
which this dangerous crisis in national affairs demands."
  "Very well, uncle, I shall be ready at this or any other
time to hear whatever you are disposed to communicate.
I do not know at present to what particular subject
you allude, but my object in coming up was to seek in-
formation. I am happy in having it in my power to
spend this summer with you. From your age and intelli-
gence I hope I may be instructed in many things of which
I am now partially ignorant. How are the good old servants
that you owned some years ago I want at once to go
to the cabins to see them all. I know they will be very
glad to see me.".
  "Alas! David, it pains me to say, you will find none
there-the cabins are all vacated, silent as the tombs.
You have come to a deserted plantation."
  " What, uncle, can be the cause of this great change
in your domestic affairs What evil demon has been at
work to destroy that peace and harmony in your family I
witnessed years ago Then there was confidence between
master and slave, reciprocal feelings of friendship. I can
not see how that faithful old servant Tom, reared by you
from a boy-descended to you by inheritance-could be
enticed away."
  " You have, David, made an allusion to those very
matters which have borne so heavily upon me. I have
been constrained to do, what I never supposed I would
do during my life-to part with my slaves. They are
gone, not to Canada, but to the soutlh, and I have their
value in money. The reasons for such an act I will here-
after detail."



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