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Then did the slave-sentinels give joyful notice of the con- 

 querors' approach with their slave-booty. Then did the slave- 

 nurses hasten to receive the slave-babies transferred to their 

 tender care. Little did they dream, poor simple bodies ! that 

 the ravished nurslings had sprung of the same race, perhaps 

 of the same parentage, as themselves. A_nd what mattered it, 

 since in their ignorance was bliss? And so, while some 

 among them hushed and dandled and fed their little com- 

 patriots and cousins in captivity, others (much after the fashion 

 of a gulled constituency chairing a successful member) carried 

 their victorious captors in triumph to their homes. Then, 

 while the illustrious Amazons reposed after their recent toils 

 (toils undertaken for the express purpose of being the better 

 able to indulge in idleness), others of their attendants (also of 

 course slaves), served them with the most delicious viands, 

 which, to their recipients, would probably have been more 

 grateful still, could they have been even spared the trouble of 

 opening their mouths. 



Thus were the free nurseries of Pusca stripped almost to ex- 

 tinction, that the slave nurseries of Buna might be replenished 

 to overflowing. An unfair procedure, doubtless ; but we must 

 not throw a stone at an ant-hill of oppression, while we 

 tolerate a mountain of the like, as heaped by certain of our 

 (so called) Christian brethren on their brethren of our race. 



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 The foregoing, like many another historic record of a graver 



