y the considerations that naturally came to her
mind. She had been kind to me; the day before she and her daughter, Mrs.
Hogg, now present, had jointly transmitted a communication to the court
representing that in consequence of my good conduct from my youth, I could
not be supposed to be guilty of any offence. And now, "with tears that
ceased not flowing," they gave me their parting blessing. My mother was
still Mrs. Haywood's slave, and I her only child. Our old mistress could
not witness the sorrow that would attend the parting with my mother. She
told her to go with me; and said that if I ever became able to pay two
hundred dollars for her, I might; otherwise it should be her loss. She
gave her the following paper, which is in the ordinary form of a _pass_:

RALEIGH, N.C. April 26, 1842.

Know all persons by these presents, that the bearer of this, Clarissa, a
slave, belonging to me, hath my permission to visit the city of New York
with her relations, who are in company with her; and it is my desire
that she may be protected and permitted to pass without molestation or
hindrance, on good behavior. Witness my hand this 26th April, 1842.

ELEANOR HAYWOOD.

Witness--J.A. Campbell.

On leaving Mrs. Haywood's, I called upon Mrs. Badger, another daughter,
and wife of Judge Badger, previously mentioned. She seemed equally
affected; she wept as she gave me her parting counsel. She and Mrs. Hogg
and I had been children together, playing in the same yard, while yet none
of us had learned that they were of a superior and I of a subject race.
And in those infant years there were pencillings made upon the heart,
which time and opposite fortunes could not all efface.--May these friends
never be slaves as I have been; nor their bosom companions and their
little ones be slaves like mine.

When the cars were about to start, the whole city seemed to be gathered at
the depot; and among the rest the mobocratic portion, who appeared to be
determined still that I should not go peaceably away. Apprehending this,
it had been arranged with my friends and the conductor, that my family
should be put in the cars and that I should go a distance from the city on
foot, and be taken up as they passed. The mob, therefore, supposing that I
was left behind, allowed the cars to start.

Mr. Whiting, known as the agent of the rail road company, was going as far
as Petersburg, Va.; and he kindly assisted in purchasing our tickets, a