Iola, did you ever attend an anti-slavery meeting ?" "No; I don't think these Abolitionists have any right to meddle in our affairs.

I believe they are prejudiced against us, and want to get our property.

I read about them in the papers when I was at home.

I don't want to hear my part of the country run down.

My father says the slaves would be very well contented if no one put wrong notions in their heads." "I don't know," was the response of her friend, "but I do not think that that slave mother who took her four children, crossed the Ohio River on the ice, killed one of the children and attempted the lives of the other two, was a contented slave.