ABOLITIONIBM UNVEILED.



                 CHAPTER III.
  'Squire Gray resumes the subject -The injury to Slave and Master,
          from Abolition interference, clearly pointed out.

   EARLY the ensuing morning, David arose, and met his
uncle in the parlor.
   "Well, David," says he, "I hope that sleep, 'tired
nature's sweet restorer,' has prepared you for the duties
of the day. The sun has just spread abroad his rays-
the little birds, with their sweetest songs have welcomed
the returning day; but when I look abroad upon my ex-
tended fields, covered with numerous cattle and sheep, I
feel sensibly the inconvenience to which I am subjected
by the removal of my slaves."
   " I have no doubt of that, uncle," replied David. "You
have, from your infancy, been accustomed to them, and
you have now to depend upon hired labor. I cannot say
how it may succeed here; but in the cotton region I know
it would be a perfect failure. It is possible you may con-
trive to graze most of your land, and cultivate annually
only a small portion in grain, without the hiring of many
hands; and in this way you may derive from your estate
a moderate income."
  " Be that as it may, David, I will never repent of what
I have done. I did not act in haste, or from a sudden
impulse of passion; but upon full and mature considera-
tion. The act afforded me no pleasure in the world; but,
on the contrary, it was one of the most painful nature I
ever performed."
  " Oh! cruel destiny, uncle; what could have induced
you to perform such an act of apparent cruelty  Surely
there must have been powerful causes to have constrained
you to the performance of such a deed."
  "Truly, truly, David; but now I will detail to you
why I have thus acted - not only myself, but many of
my neighbors. We reside here near the Ohio river, on
the borders of the state, and have suffered much from
Abolitionism. Of its origin, progress, and pernicious
tendency, perhaps you may, in some degree, be ignorant.



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