But this secret I kept to myself until I was fully satisfied that this feeling was reciprocal; that there was indeed a congeniality of principles and feeling, which time nor eternity could never change.
When I offered myself for matrimony, we mutually engaged ourselves to each other, to marry in one year, with this condition, viz: that if either party should see any reason to change their mind within that time, the contract should not be considered binding.

We kept up a regular correspondence during the time, and in June, 1848, we had the happiness to be joined in holy wedlock.

Not in slaveholding style, which is a mere farce, without the sanction of law or gospel; but in accordance with the laws of God and our country.

My beloved wife is a bosom friend, a help-meet, a loving companion in all the social, moral, and religious relations of life.

She is to me what a poor slave's wife can never be to her husband while in the condition of a slave; for she can not be true to her husband contrary to the will of her master.