It is tottering to its fall.

What shall be done with the negroes in the transition state will be a problem for statesmen to consider.

I don't think we need fear the consequences of doing right, and on this subject there can be no doubt of what is right; The apparent insensibility and brutish ignorance which we find among some of the slaves will wear away under happier influences.
"There is a little fellow of perhaps a dozen years who comes into our camp and runs of errands and does little services for the men.

Yesterday morning he came to my tent, and with a grin, said to me, 'De ol' man died last night.' "'What, your father ?' I inquired in surprise.
"'Yes, massa,' with another grin: 'Goin' to tote him off dis mornin'.' "As he only lived a quarter of a mile off, I got permission to go over to the house, or cabin, where Scip's father had lived.
"The outer door was open, and I entered without knocking.

A woman was bending over a washtub at the back part of the room.