The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.