Mrs. Ballard possessed the highest intelligence, and Mrs. Maria Franks wasamong the most accomplished of Southern ladies.  “Tell me, Madam Ballard, how will the 1orth go in the present issue"”enquired Franks.  “Give yourself no concern about that, Colonel,” replied Mrs. Ballard, “youwill find the 1orth true to the country.”  “:hat you consider true, may be false—that is, it might be true to you, andfalse to us,” continued he.  “<ou do not understand me, Colonel,” she rejoined, “we can have nointerests separate from yours; you know the time-honored motto, 'united westand,' and so forth, must apply to the American people under every policy inevery section of the Union.”  “So it should, but amidst the general clamor in the contest for ascendancy,may you not lose sight of this important point"”  “How can we" <ou, I'm sure, Colonel, know very well that in our countrycommercial interests have taken precedence of all others, which is a sufficientguarantee of our fidelity to the South.”  “That may be, madam, but we are still apprehensive.”  “:ell, sir, we certainly do not know what more to do to give you assuranceof our sincerity. :e have as a plight of faith yielded Boston, 1ew <ork, andPhiladelphia—the intelligence and wealth of the 1orth—in carrying out theCompromise measures for the interests of the South; can we do more"”  “True, Madam Ballard, true I yield the controversy. <ou have already donemore than we of the South expected. I now remember that the Judge himselftried the first case under the Act, in your city, by which the measures weretested.

“<ou do not understand me, Colonel,” she rejoined, “we can have nointerests separate from yours; you know the time-honored motto, 'united westand,' and so forth, must apply to the American people under every policy inevery section of the Union.”

 “Tell me, Madam Ballard, how will the 1orth go in the present issue"”enquired Franks.

The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father;

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege

I am that I am

A leading exponent of liberty in both the abolitionist and feminist movements in the mid-nineteenth century, Sojourner Truth was an extraordinarily

Sojourner Truth went on to her destina-tion undisturbed.

earnestly hoping that before this day your sacred liberties would have been restored

We have been contented in sitting still and mourning over your sorrows

That if the Convention should adopt it, that those delegates who lived near the borders of the slave states, would not dare to return to their homes.

has been pleased to hear our moans in consequence of oppression

white Christians of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to Christianity,)

we Coloured People of these United States, are, the most wretched, degraded and abject set of beings that over lived since the world began, down to the present day

soon after his arrival in Paris, Sejour mad~ the acquaintance of influential literary men of color, such as Alexandre Dumas pere, the popular French novelist, and aboli-tionist Cyrille Bisette,

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ew Orleans. Sejour's parents were suff

e. It is certain that some white clergymen knew the hymnal, for the extant copy of the first edition belonged to Ezekiel Cooper, book steward of the Philadelphia Methodist Church with authority for approving all books published by membe

ns. Allen him- self would have introduced many hymns to his fledgling flock, hymns that he had picked up during his several years as an itinerant Methodist exhorter before settling in Philade

HE FIRST HYMNAL compiled expressly for the use of a black congregation, entitled A Collection of Spiritual Songs and Hymns, Selectedfrom Various Authors, was published in 1801 by Richard Allen, who is identified on the title page as "African Minis- ter

The once verdant plains, round its environs had been crimsoned with the blood of innocence, and the nature of the times afforded no security to the oppressed natives of Saint Nicholas

Not without much unhappiness, she saw that if she would save her life from the inhumanity of her country's enemy, she must depart from the endeared village ofher innocent childhood

Original Communication. FOR THE FREEDOM'S JOURNAL. THERESA, ______ A Haytien Tale.

Behold the prophet in his tow'ring flight!

Some view our sable race with scornful eye

Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too

tommy hawked

Not many rods distant from his head.

The names of whom I'll not leave out.

After five days travel we came to the end of this desert, and immediately entered into a beautiful and extensive interval country

At night we all lay down together in the most secure place we could find, and reposed ourselves until morning.

In consequence of this rupture, my mother left her husband and country, and travelled away with her three children to the eastward. I was then five years old

Of these the most considerable is the kingdom of Benen, both as to extent and wealth, the richness and cultivation of the soil, the power of its king, and the number and warlike disposition of the inhabitants.

and of a nation which, by its liberal sentiments, its humanity, the glorious freedom of its government, and its proficiency in arts and sciences, has exalted the dignity of human nature.

By the horrors of that trade was I first torn away from all the tender connexions that were naturally dear to my heart; but these

sothatinsixmonthsIwasabletoplaysotth

ThefirstdayIwenttohimheputtheviolinintomyhand^whichpleasedmemuch,and,applyingclose,Ilearnedveryfast,notonlytoplay,buttodanetf

Ipassedbyaschool,andheardmusicanddancing,whichtookmyfancyverymuch,

At the Havanna I lived with the Governor in the Castle about a Twelve-month

but take as many of them as they could, of those that should be cast away, and bring them to him, for which he would pay them Ten Dollars a-head

As soon as they had kill'd the whole of the People, one of the Canoes padled after me, and soon came up with me, hawled me into the Canoe, and beat me most terribly with a Cutlass,