To be sure, they were poor ignorant negroes, who are
looked upon by a large portion of the world, as only fit to be ranked
with dogs and other dumb animals: yet they have souls, hearts which had
been given to Christ, and the meek and lowly Jesus, were he now upon the
earth, would not be ashamed to take this down-trodden race by the hand
and lift them up. God looks down from his throne above with pitying eye;
he pities his children; we grow strong in the assurance of his tender
mercies; but let us remember,--he will avenge with a powerful arm, the
wrongs inflicted upon his feebler ones; for he hath said,--"My children,
love ye one another, even as your heavenly Father loveth you."
This meeting of old Vingo and Phillis, was enough to have softened the
heart of the vilest "Legree;" but probably, had one of those gentlemen,
whose highly respectable occupation it is to deal in the traffic of
buying and selling--man, been present, they might have been led to
remark, "The silly creatures seem to imagine they have some feeling."
The evening shades descended. The night was wild, and the voices of the
breakers rose loud, as if responding to the angry aspect of nature; yet
peace sat beneath the roof of Mrs.
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