sent her
minister's wife this loaf. Said Miss ----, "I was hurrying to get a silk
dress made last week, but my dressmaker put me off, because she was
working for Phillis B.'s wedding."
We both gave a glance at Hattie. She sat gazing at Miss ----, her lips
partly open, her eyes moistened,--a picture in which delight and
incredulity were in pleasant strife.
* * * * *
We have been in the interior a fortnight. One thing filled me with
astonishment, soon after I came here, namely, to find widow ladies and
their daughters, all through the interior of Southern States, living
remote from other habitations, surrounded by twenty, fifty, or a hundred
slaves. Hattie and I spent a week with a widow lady, whose head slave
was her overseer. There was not a white man within a mile of the house.
More than twenty black men, slaves, were in the negro quarter. I awoke
the first night, and said to Hattie,--
"Do you know that you are 'sleeping on a volcano'?"
"What do you mean, Aunt? You frighten me."
"Well, it will not make an eruption to-night," said I. "We will examine
into it to-morrow."
At breakfast I asked the lady how she dared to live so. I told her that
we at the North generally fancied Southern people sleeping on their
arms, expecting any night to be murdered by their slaves.
"It ought to be so, ought it not?" said she, "according to your Northern
theory of slavery; and it may get to be so, if your people persist in
some of their ways. My only fear is of some white men who live about two
miles off. I keep two of my men-servants in the house at night as a
protection against white depredators."
"But," said Hattie, "there have been insurrections. Are you not afraid
that your slaves will rise and assert their liberty?"
The lady smiled and was evidently hesitating whether to answer seriously
or not, when Hattie continued,--
"Aunt! now I see what you meant by our sleeping on a volcano."
"Yes," said I, "we at the North often speak of you Souther
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.