I came
from the North and I don't like dirt, so I want you to clean the house."
The old colored woman set to work, and it seemed as if she did more work
in that half day than she had done in a month before. When the lady got
back the colored woman came to her and said, "Now, is I free or ben't I
not? When I go to my old massa he says I ain't free, and when I go to my
own people they say I is, and I don't know whether I'm free or not. Some
people told me Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation, but massa says he
didn't; he hadn't any right to." So Christian people go along, not
knowing whether they are free or not. Why, when they have the Spirit
they are as free as air. Christ came for that. He didn't come to set us
free and then leave us in servitude. He came to give us liberty now and
forever.
Out of Libby Prison.
There was a story told me while I was in Philadelphia, by Capt.
Trumbull. He said when he was in Libby prison the news came that his
wife was in Washington, and his little child was dying: and the next
news that came was that his child was dead, and the mother remained in
Washington in hopes that her husband could come with her and take that
child off to New England and bury it; but that was the last he heard.
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