cruel conduct, was the uprightness and integrity
of the Slave!! But, alas! avarice is deaf to all
arguments except those of self-interest; it was
therefore in vain that E. W. thus pleaded the
cause of suffering virtue; for the hardened task-
master was inexorable to all his reasonings; and
the poor black man and his family remain in bon-
dage, living witnesses to what a pitch of obduracy,
avarice and self-interest can harden the heart of
man. As nothing that E. W. could say had any
effect upon the master, he thought it his duty to
endeavour to reconcile the poor slave to a hard
lot, and to persuade him not to leave his wife and
family, as it appeared his full determination to
have done. In this he was more successful; for
the poor man concluded to remain with them, and
endeavour to bear his burden with patience.