uriosity shall be
gratified," replied my guide. I then distinctly viewed thousands of
_Black Men_, who had been groaning under the rod of oppression,
starting up in all the transport of renovated life, and shouting aloud
"WE ARE FREE!" One tall commanding figure, who seemed to exercise the
rights of a chieftain among them, gathered many tribes around him, and
addressed them in the following few, but comprehensive, words:
"Countrymen, it has pleased the Great God above to make man
instrumental to the freedom of his fellow-creatures. While we lament
our past, let us be grateful for our present, state: and never let us
cease, each revolving year, to build an altar of stones to the memory,
of that GREAT and GOOD MAN, who hath principally been the means of our
FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY. No: we will regularly perform this solemn act,
as long as there shall remain one pebble upon our shores."

"Thus much," resumed my Guide, "for the dawning felicities of the
_western_ world: but see how the _eastern_ empires are yet ignorant
and unsettled!" I was about to turn my eyes to Persia and India, to
China and Japan, when to my astonishment, the surface of the Mirror
became perfectly blackened, except in some few circular parts, which
were tinged with the colour of blood. "The future is a fearful sight,"
said my Guide; "we are forbidden its contemplation, and can only
behold the gloomy appearances before us: they are ominous ones!"

My mind, on which so many and such various objects had produced a
confused effect, was quite overpowered and distracted. I leaned upon
the arm of the chair, and, covering my face with my hands, became
absorbed in a thousand ideas, when a sudden burst of thunder made me
start from my seat--and, looking forward, I perceived that the MIRROR,
with all its magical illusions had vanished away! My preternatural
Guide then placed himself before me, but in an altered female form. A
hundred various coloured wings sprung from her arms, and her feet
seemed to be shod with sandals of rubies; around which numerous
cherubs entwined themselves. The perfume that arose from the flapping
of her wings was inexpressibly grateful; and the soft silvery voices
of these cherubic attendants had an effect truly enchanting.

No language can adequately describe my sensations on viewing this
extraordinary change of object. I gazed with rapture upon my wonderful
Guide, whose countenance now beamed with benevolence and beauty. "Ah!"
exclaim