“You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom’s swift-winged angels that fly around the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I were free! O that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing! Alas! betwixt me and you the turbid waters roll. Go on, go on. O that I could also go! Could I but swim! If I could fly! O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute! The glad ship is gone; she hides in the dim distance. I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O God, save me! God, deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. * * * Only think of it; one hundred miles straight north, and I am free! Try it? Yes! God helping me, I will. It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave. * * *”—_Autobiography of Douglass_, pp. 64, 65. Footnote 21: “There was no getting rid of it [the thought of his condition]. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more for ever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in everything. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star; it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”—_Autobiography_, pp. 40, 41. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKS ISSUED BY JOHN CASSELL, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON. THE BOOK FOR EVERY FAMILY Now ready, the First Volume of THE POPULAR EDUCATOR, The most comprehensive Educational Work ever issued from the Press. The ordinary Edition, with the usual Weekly Headings, price 3s. 6d. neatly bound; the Fine Paper Edition, without the Weekly Headings, price 4s. 6d. well bound in cloth. The POPULAR EDUCATOR includes a regular course of instruction in English and English Grammar, French, German, Latin, Geometry, Arithmetic, Geography, Geology, Natural History, Botany, Biography, Ancient History, Architecture, Music, Physiology, Drawing, Phonetic Short-hand, &c. The Lessons in Geography will be accompanied by a Series of Twelve Maps, engraved on Copper (measuring 11 inches by 9). These Maps will appear at regular intervals, and will be printed so as to admit of being separated if necessary, and studied along with the description of the different countries to which they belong.—Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America have already appeared.