ves till he has submitted to examination as to
character, or brings certificates of a good disposition. I know that
man. His father was from ---- [a New England State.] He is what we call
a torn-down character. His neighbors all"--but the signal was given for
starting, and the conversation was broken off.

My first thought was, How glad I would be to set that man free from such
bondage! The next thought was, Where would I send him to be free from
"the power of the dog?" I had been reading, in a Boston paper, a lecture
delivered in Boston, by a distinguished "friend of the slave," against
Mr. Webster and Mr. Choate, before an "immense audience." I thought, How
much better it is to be a Christian slave, even to this master, than to
sit in the seat of the scornful, applauding such a lecture!

The poor slave was having his probation and discipline, as we all have
ours, and he was suffering, as we all do in our turns, from an impudent
tongue. Little did he think that a fellow-creature, looking at him at
that moment, was reminded, by his meekness under insult, of Him, our
example, who, under such provocation, opened not his mouth, and that I
was made to remember, as I stood there and received instruction from
him, that the best alleviation and cure of anguished sensibility under
ill-treatment is in this same silence, and in thoughts of Jesus.

After the cars had started, I took my Bible from my carpet-bag, and read
these passages: "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not
only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is
thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering
wrongfully." Then this is enforced by the example of our incarnate God
and Saviour, who is held up to Christian slaves as their example; and in
this connection, not only in this passage, but elsewhere in speaking to
slaves, the Apostle brings in the most sublime truths relating to
redemption. You will be struck with this in reading what is said to
slaves, that in several cases, the train of thought proceeds directly
from their condition and its duties, to the most sublime and beautiful
truths of salvation. How divinely wise did these exhortations to slaves
appear to me, that morning, in contrast with the spirit of the Northern
abolitionist, and his talk about "Bunker Hill," "'76," and his
"grandfather's old gun over the mantel-piece," and his injunctions to
slaves as to the duty of stealing, and even murder