. Led on! Step by step, scenes from clerical, military, educational, and plantation life in the South, 1828-1898; . had a large family of day long Peter came to me, and said he wished totake another wife. ** Well, I said, * Peter, the trouble is, you cannot doit. A man in this country can only have one wife. Oh, yes, Mossa, but I want to leave this one, and geta young gal. She is too old for me. You rascal, I said, and what does your wife say tothis? Oh, she does not wish me to leave her. And you shall not, I said. So calling both together, I told her all that had passed. ** I am
. Led on! Step by step, scenes from clerical, military, educational, and plantation life in the South, 1828-1898; . had a large family of day long Peter came to me, and said he wished totake another wife. ** Well, I said, * Peter, the trouble is, you cannot doit. A man in this country can only have one wife. Oh, yes, Mossa, but I want to leave this one, and geta young gal. She is too old for me. You rascal, I said, and what does your wife say tothis? Oh, she does not wish me to leave her. And you shall not, I said. So calling both together, I told her all that had passed. ** I am not going to punish you, I added, but I meanto make Peter live with 3^ou. I then directed the overseer to fix up comfortablequarters in the barn and every night to see that the manand wife had food, water, and a bed, and to put them inthe barn, and lock them up together. This lasted about a fortnight, when Peter said, Datwill do, Mossa. I see you is termined, and I will livewith Klsey—let us out. I did so, and the fellow did live with his family as longas I owned them, but as to his fidelity, I cannot CHAPTER VII KND OF MY LIFE The institution of slavery—Its missionary results—An in-herited responsibility—The good side of the African—Emancipation—/ begin to feel that I had missed my voca-tion—/ determine to enter the mi7iistry—My friends en-courage me—A time of study—The episcopal examination— The end of plantation life for me—A painful ordeal. THIS seems to me a good place to record my views asto the institution of slavery. I could not help itthat I was a slave-holder. I was born to it, and inheritedit. It had come to my ancestors from the English, andafterwards from the cupidity of residents in the EasternStates. I do not believe there is anywhere on record,that the slave trade was carried on by Southern do not say this by way of reproach ; as I have said be-fore, those who brought and those who bought them livedup to the l
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