Auld had come through,"_ and it was for me to hope for the best.

I was bound to do this, in charity, for I, too, was religious, and had been in the church full three years, although now I was not more than sixteen years old.

Slaveholders may, sometimes, have confidence in the piety of some of their slaves; but the slaves seldom have confidence in the piety of their masters.

_"He cant go to heaven with our blood in his skirts_," is a settled point in the creed of every slave; rising superior to all teaching to the contrary, and standing forever as a fixed fact.

The highest evidence the slaveholder can give the slave of his acceptance with God, is the emancipation of his slaves.