Guahibo mother, breaking her bonds, and eluding the vigilance of her guards, escaped under night, and on the fourth morning was seen at the village, hovering around the hut which contained her children. On this journey she must have undergone hardships from which the most robust man would have shrunk; was forced to live upon ants, to swim numerous streams, and to make her way through thickets and thorny lianas. And the reward of all this courage and devotion was-her removal to one of the missions of the Upper Orinoco, where, despairing of ever seeing her beloved children, and refusing all kinds of nourishment, she died, a victim to the bigotry and barbarity of wretches blasphemously calling themselves the ministers of a religion, which inculcates universal benevolence !"-Abridgment of Humboldt, in Harper's Fam. Lib. p. 221. The heart of every mother, and we think of many fathers, will bear witness that the following lines are true, and no more than true, to nature. We do not know a more touching illustration of that sacred law which slavery scornfully sets at nought. They are from the Pelican Island, by JAMES MONTGOMERY. Love found that lonely couple on the isle, And soon surrounded them with blithe companions; A nest of reeds, among the giant grass That waved in lights and shadows o'er the soil, And ranged the sky, and fished the stream for her, While the plump nestlings throbbed against his heart, Yea, half unwillingly his post resigned, When, home-sick with the absence of an hour, West Arlington, Vt., Dr, A. McKee, 3 00 100 00 CORRECTION. In the History of the Slave James, printed in our February No. a slight mistake occurred on the first page. Two of James's sisters and a brother were sold by his young master, but he himself was not sold. He was in the service of the Tilghman family at the time of his escape. RECEIPTS. Receipts into the Treasury of the American A. S. So- Warsaw, ,N. Y. John Windsor, ciety from January 15th, to February 15th, 1836. 66 C. Bronson, 2 00 66 A. Gregg, R. Chapin, D. Lee, Amherst, Mass., by E. C. Pritchett, bal 140 37 ance of pledge, Danvers, Mass., Abner Sanger, per S. J. May, 50 00 Hamilton College, A. S. S., by J. R. Dixon, 5 00 3 00 Fall River, N. Lenox, James Judd, 9 50 Rochester," G. A. Avery, on acconut of 25 00 Stockbridge, Dr. A. Perry, 1 00 Syracuse, N. Y. Seth Conklin, 10 CO W. Stockbrigde " C. M. Lewis, 5 00 Sandy Hill, Monthly Concert, 2.06 Abington, Conn., "Friends," per T. Hun East Haven," Mrs. D. Hughes, Silas Andrus, per R. G. Woodbury, Nathaniel Pierce, Arcade, N. Y. R. W. Lyman, 66 C. O. Shepard, Esq. Whitesboro, Rev. G. W. Gale, 5.00 6 25 " Rev. C. Stuart, per H. 100 00 100 00 dict & Co. 5 00 10 00 10 00 100 00 Castile, Rev. F. J Bliss, J. B. Holsted, W. Howard, Lucas Janes, J. G. True, Ziba Hurd, Dr. G. Wells, 2.00 Arthur Tappan, 250 00 John Rankin, 100 00 Rev. E. Wheeler, 50 Win. Lillie, 1 00 1 00 Miss Sarah Martin, 100 Cash, 25 5 00 Philad. Penn., Ladies A. S. S. by S. L. 66 "Friends," per do. Elyria, Ohio, Ladies A. S S. by Rev. J. E. Williams, "Female Friend," 60 00 27 23 50 00 100 1 00 100 F. T. Olney, Granville, " A. S. S. by W. Whitney, 20 00 Daniel Rowley, E. Witter, $1514 97 Monthly Collections received by the Publishing Agent, from January 1st, to February 1st, 1836. Brooklyn, Ct., by S. J. May, Farmington, Ohio, by D. Belden, Jr Newark, N. J. Dr. J. M. Ward, Putnam, Ohio, by H C. Howell, Perry Centre, N. Y. Received for Emancipator, 2 25 10 00 1 50 700 18 00 200 1150 oy J. Andrews, 10 00 by J. Sleeper, 5 00 by Thomas Becbe, 8 00 by F. C. D. McKay, 10 00 204 75 Rev. S. Gridley, 5 00 Human Rights, 70 57 C. Freeman, Quarterly Magazi:, Wyoming, E. Pomeroy, Esq. "F. C. D. McKay, W. Chapin, "S. Fisher, 66 John Munger, Hewet Kinne, A. S. Record, 15 73 Dr. Augustus Frank, Books, Pamphlets, &c. 277 86 10 00 100 $712 24 THE MORAL CHARACTER OF THE AFRICO-AMERICANS. It will be remembered that in our last number we gave some facts to show that the despised colored people possess, in full measure, that moral constitution, which, far beyond any physical or intellectual excellencies, is the glory of man. It appeared that they had exhibited the highest degree of moral heroism-that they had denied themselves for the welfare of others-that they had overcome evil with good-that they had conquered by generosity. It is by no means useless to multiply such facts; for, how can any man fail to attack slavery with all his moral power, after he is brought to see the glorious image of his Creator on the brow of the slave? We make the following extracts from the interesting travels of E. S. Abdy, Esq., and vouch for the truth of his statements from our own personal knowledge. I was once asked, with a sarcastic smile, by an American lady of Hibernian descent, if I had met with any interesting blacks in the 1 course of my tour. The winter I passed in New-York furnished what this woman, with all her contempt for a race more persecuted and less fortunate than that from which she herself sprang, would acknowledge to be most painfully interesting. During the frost, some ice, on which several boys were skating, in the outskirts of the city, gave way, and several of them were drowned. During the confusion and terror, occasioned by this accident, a colored boy, whose courage and hardihood were well known, was called upon to render assistance. He immediately threw himself into the water with his skates on, and succeeded in saving two lads; but, while exerting himself to rescue a third, he was drawn under the ice, and unable to extricate himself. No one would risk his life for him. Soon after, the details of this melancholy event appeared in one of the newspapers, (the New-York American,) with an offer to receive subscriptions for the mother, who was left with a sick husband and young family, deprived of the support which she had derived from her son's industry. As reference was made to a medical man in Park Place, I called upon him, and received a very favorable account both of the boy and his poor mother, who was employed to wash for him. I immediately proceeded to her house, and found that she had three children left;-the eldest about ten years of age, and the youngest an infant at the breast. In addition to these, she had undertaken the care of a little girl, five years old, the daughter of a deceased friend, whose husband had deserted his child, and refused to pay any thing towards her support. 'I consider her as my child,' said the generous woman; 'and, while I have a crust left, she shall share it with my children.' I made inquiries about the boy she had just lost, and was told, what I had heard in Park Place, that his conduct had always been most exemplary;—that he had carried to her every cent he could save from his earnings, and had often expressed a wish that he might obtain sufficient to save her from working so hard; -her business sometimes keeping her up nearly all night. Such was the history of Susannah Peterson and her heroic boy. It was told in the most simple and natural manner; without any display of grief, or the slightest attempt to exhibit feeling or excite commiseration. There was an expression of dejection, however, in the countenance that could not be mistaken; and an effort to suppress the work ings of a mother's heart, that I never saw so striking in any one. Every thing, in the furniture of the room, the decent behavior of the children, and the general deportment of the parent, bespoke full as much propriety and respectability as I ever met with in the same class of life, whatever might be the occupation or complexion. Mrs. Peterson was a member of one of the numerous societies for mutual assistance; which exist among the colored inhabitants of New-York. That, to which she belonged, is called "The Benevolent Daughters of Zion," and contains about 200 members. The entrance money is one dollar, and the subscription money one shilling (about sixpence of our money) per month. The benefits to be derived from it are an allowance of twelve shillings a week for six weeks during sickness; with any addition after that period that the state of the funds may admit of; and, in case of death, the payment of funeral expenses, (generally * Since dead. ten dollars.) There is another society to which she once subscribed, "The Benevolent Assistance Society." The entrance to this is two shillings, and the subscription four cents monthly. These contributions, with occasional donations, enable the society to assist poor persons who do not belong to it, as well as its own members, when in distress. Mrs. Peterson's brother, who is known in England as the African Roscius, had occasionally sent her remittances of money, and had expressed, in one of his letters from this country, an intention to provide for her unfortunate boy's education. I had frequent opportunities of seeing Mrs. Peterson; and my respect for her character increased with my acquaintance. When I settled a little account I had with her for washing and other work, I had some difficulty in prevailing upon her to take what was strictly her due; such was the gratitude for the few services I was enabled, with the assistance of my friends, to render her. Three months had elapsed since the death of young Peterson, and not one of the relatives of either of the boys, whose lives he had saved at the cost of his own, had been near his bereaved mother; and the subscription did not amount to seventy dollars. This, at least, was all she had received. Two English ladies, who had been with her six or eight weeks before, had informed her that they had collected twenty dollars for her. When we consider that the population of the place amounts to more than two hundred and fifty thousand, including Brooklyn, it is little to its credit that the gratitude it felt for the preservation of two of its citizens could find no better way to exhibit itself, than by a paltry donation to the self-devoted preserver's afflicted parent, of a sum scarcely exceed. ing one-fourth of what he might have been sold for when living, in the slave market at New-Orleans. On the very day that this generous act was performed by a poor lad of color, another example of humanity was given by a man belonging to the same "degraded caste." This case did not excite the same attention, though it well deserved commemoration and recompense. The latter it had in the shape of five dollars, from the father of the boy who had been rescued from a watery grave. The name of the man who distinguished himself was Jones. He declined receiving any remuneration, and the money was given to another colored man, (Austin,) who had carried the child home with him, put him into his own bed, and restored him to life from the state of exhaustion in which he was when taken out of the water. Several white men were standing near when the accident occurred; but none of them ventured to quit dry land. Two months elapsed before the father of the boy visited the man to whom he was indebted for the life of his son. MUM BETT. The following anecdote is extracted from a very interesting “ Lecture on the practicability of the abolition of slavery, delivered at the Lyceum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, February, 1831." It is understood to have been written by a son (now deceased) of Judge Sedgwick, |