Poetry: The Christian Slave

Tn n lata publicaiion of L. F. Tasistro. 'Rnndom Shots and Southern Breczes.' is a description of n s'.avc auction in New Orleans. at whicli the nuctioneer recommended ihe woman on the e tand as 'a good chrisiim. ' A-Christian! going. gonel Who bids for Gou's own image? - fur H's grace Wbich tlmtpoor viotim of iho niarket place Hath in her suilciing von7 My God! can such tliings be? Hast Thou not naid tint whalsoe'cr is dono Unto Thy weakest and Thy bumblest one, Is even done tu Thcc? ín thnt sad vic:iin, thín, Child of Thy pitying lovc, I 6ee Thoe stand - Once iv.ore the jest word of a mockingband, Bound, sold, and scourged againl A Christian up for sale! Wet with her blood your whips - o'er taak her frame, Make her life loathsotne with your wrong and ahame, Her patience ehall not fail! A. heathen hand might deal Knck on your head the gnthe'rcd wrong of years, But her low, breken prayer nnd nightly tears. Ye nrithcr heed nor feel. Con well thy lessen o'er, Tliou prudent teacher - teil the toiling slavc, No dangeroua tale of Him who came to Beek aud save The outcast and the poor. I3ut wisely shut the ray Of God's ft e e. Gospel from her simple heart, And to hr d.irkened niind alone impnrt One stern command- 'Obey!' So shalt thou deftly raise The market price of human flesh; and while On 'thee, their pampered guesf, the plantct'e sniüe, Thy cliurch shall praiee.Grave reverend menshall teil From Northern pulpits how the work was biest While in that vile South Sodom, first and best, Thy poor disciplcs sell! Oh. shamc! the Moslcm thrnl], Who. wnh hia niii8ier, to the Prophet kneels, While lurning to the saered Kebla feels Ilis fotterg break and fnll. ¦ Cheers for the turbnned Bey Of robber-peopled Tunis! he huth torn The dark slave dungeona open.' and hath borne Their intnates into day: But mir poor slavo in vain Ti'rn8 to the Chiistian 6hrine his aching eyea - lts riles will only swell his mnrket price, And rivet oh his chain.t God of all right! how long Shnil priestly robbers at Thine nhar stand. Lifting in pruyer to Thee, the bloody hand And haughty browof Wrong? Oh. from tho fields of cane, Froin the low ricc-swamps, Irom the ttadcr's cell- From the black slavc ship's foul and loathsome heil, And cofHe'8 vveary chain, - Ilonrsc, horrible, and strong Rises to Picaven that ngonizing cry, Filling the arches of the hollow sky, How long, oh God, iiow long? Amesbury, 20tli, 5th mo., 1843. J, G. W. 71icro isin Liberly cotinty, Georgia, an Aseociation for the religioua ii.siruction ol'Ncgrocs. Their Ecvcnih annnal report con'.ains an nddress by the Rcr. Josiah Spry Lnw, from which we extract tho following: - 'There 3 a growing intciCBt in thij community, in tho religious instrtiction of negroes. There is a conviction th;u religioitsmstruction promotes the quid and order of ilie peoplc, and the ptcuniary interest of the owners.' tWe often sec advertisements ïn the Southern pnpers, n which individual slnvcs, or several of n loj, nrc recornmended as 'pious,' or as 'membere of clmrchcs.' Lately we saw a alave adveitised. who, among othcr qualificatione, was described as 'a Baptist Pr cache r.'