One day, while riding in advance of the command, down San Francisco Creek, I heard some one calling my name from a little bunch of willow brush on the opposite bank, and, upon looking closely at the spot, I saw a negro.

In five or six years he had cleared near three hundred acres of land, had it planted in sweet-scented tobacco, for which the Northern Neck was always famous, bought two-score negroes to tend it, and began to see light ahead.

The masters used to try to make me whip their negroes.

Barney, leaving the negro writhing in convulsions under the table, darted to the windowto the rendezvous.

Nearly overtaken by the man, she met a negro who pulled teeth, and said to him: "You see my son coming down there; pull out his teeth."

If pa hadn't told the negroes not to feed the fat lady and the giant any more, there would have been two circus funerals next day.

Accordingly, to make the colored people of that colony inaccessible to these workers it was deemed wise in 1672 to enact a law prohibiting members of that sect from taking Negroes to their meetings.

Nothing more strikingly attests the folly of freeing the negro than the unwillingness of the better class of slaves to leave their former owners" "Now you are going to quote a paragraph or so from your Gracious Era.

This brought the negro a few steps in front of his companion.

I told them they would have to ask the negroes for how was I to know what weapons they had concealed about their persons, any more than pa was responsible if his politicians carried revolvers.

Will Virginia set all her negroes free?

Short, thick-set men, with fierce faces, who gloried in the fact that they had at various times killed refractory negroes, also presented themselves to undergo the necessary examination.

In a certain place called Careca, he found some negroes with curled hair, who were captives among the Indians.

But, having a vast deal more sense than the District Attorney, he saw that the idea that I had carried off these negroes to sell them again for my own profit was not tenable.

I am of opinion, however, from what I afterwards heard, that the step was not an altogether popular one in the eastern and northern states, although it certainly was so in the southern; it being argued in the public prints there, that as dogs had been used in hunting down fugitive negroes from time immemorial, the mere fact of bloodhounds being used instead of mastiffs was a peccadillo unworthy of name.

"If the Slave Trade," says he, "was prohibited for four or five years, it would enable them to retrieve their affairs by preventing them from running into debt, either by renting or purchasing Negroes."

"Ebber so fur," replied the negro; "can see de sky fru de top ob de tree.

The prince called his negroes and said to them: "Seize Half-a-Cock and cast him into the cattle-yard so that it may be crushed under their feet.

Being awakened by the noise, he saw Bisboror get out of bed and order two negroes to bring his camel.

Early the next morning, the captain sent the negroes and Mike down the Susquehannah a mile, to clear away some flood-wood, of which one of the hunters had brought in a report the preceding day.

A sweet young man, who was extremely attentive to us, Charles Haensel, is since gone to Sierra Leone to teach the poor negroes, from a conviction of duty.

When Carteret had spoken, and the crowd had cheered him, they felt that they had done all that courtesy required, and he was good-naturedly elbowed aside while they proceeded with the work in hand, which was now to drive out the negroes from the hospital and avenge the killing of their comrade.

" This suggestion threw the old negro into excitement.

I heard him say on one occasion, when some gentlemen were arguing in favor of sending the free colored people to Africa, that this was as really the black man's country as the white's, and that it would be as humane to knock the free negroes, at once, on the head, as to send them to Liberia.

He does not think that the apprenticeship will be a means of preparing the negroes for freedom, nor does he believe that they need any preparation.