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184 SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH.
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4 Sion Neio To Call Orleans On A , Lad F...
Where do you come from . ; what Is your name , sir ? I know nothing " about you ; you can't come here ; the colored folks have their own
preacher do I know . _" he And is the not Kttle one gentlemanwas of your Northern frig men htened , one and of went your off sneaking . "How
abolitionists ? " & c , and he asked me if I knew him . Then there came another white man who was allowed to preach there , so I
would not stay , as I knew so well how they preach . I went on to the Methodistsandseeing a black man in the pulitI entered and
took my old p , lace . , He was in the midst of the p history , of the Woman of Samaria , and the congregation in a state of great
enjoyment _^ He told how Christ was going to Jerusalem , and " the city of Samaria was right In the road ; He could go there in His way . "
A good description of the difference between Jews and Samaritans came in here , followed by a curious and earnest description of the
interview between our Lord and the woman at the well , told in picturesque negro _languageand ending thus : " Jesus Clirist did
not care for opinions on reli , gion , all He wanted was heart-felt religion ; be born againbe born again in the heart . " Here arose
, a shout of iC Yes , oh yes—blessed Lord ! " the negroes jumping up and down with their hands in the air . The preacher then spoke
about the Jews and the captivity ; and I remarked , as I often have done beforethat the congregation always identify themselves . with
, that chosen people in bondage , and look forward to the release . Some look to heaven ; but some , I am sure , look for a better time
on earth . On leaving , I spoke to my friends , and they told me the prayer-meeting the other day had been " beautiful . " How I wish
I might g * et in ; but I arn . a Gentile , they say ! I dined afterwards with a colored lady who was in the _chajDel ; she is a planter up the
river—such a shrewd clever little old lady , rich , and very hospitable . She told me that numbers of Italians , French and Irish
come and ask her for a lodging . The other day a j _> oor old Italian , ran who g * looked the bell very and miserable asked the , slep servant t at to her bring house 1 him , and a looking in the - morning glass to
shave by I — cool for a beggar ! I like the little old lady , and if I had time would go and see her lantation . Just off for Mobile .
p Savannah , February 2 3 rd . —The negroes tell me it is hardly worth while to be free , the laws are so hard on them now . If they stay
In the State of Alabama ( and I think here , too , ) they must have a nominal owner , and go up to be registered at certain times , and
comply with all sorts of vexatious regulations , some of which are expensive . I saw , at Montgomerya bill setting forth that " Freeborn Will "
was to be hired out as a slave , , because he had not registered on the right day , was finedand was unable or unwilling to pay the fine .
That reminds me of the , next poster , " Great grisly bear of California , & c . & c , Clergymen admitted gratis ! " The advertisements are very
c urious here—a great many about slaves and runaways , and as many a bout fortune-tellers . In the steamboat on the Alabama there was
a cabin set _eupart for the colored peox _3 le , and there I went for a
184 Slavery In The South.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/40/
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