Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
A few weeks after this another vessel steamed out of the New Orleans
harbor, bearing some who have been familiar to us; but this steamer was
bound for the sunny shores of France.
Paul Crivelli and his cousin Camillia decided on leaving New Orleans
until the Spanish girl had recovered from the shock of her father's
death. They had consented therefore to accompany Armand Tremlay and
Pauline, who, after considerable persuasion, had been induced to become
the wife of her old lover without further delay.
Silas Craig left New Orleans in the dead of the night. None knew
whither he went, and few cared to discover. He had so contrived as to
convey away the whole of his wealth, and if the possession of gold,
each coin of which is branded with meanness and dishonor, can bring
happiness, the usurer may be a happy man. But let him not hug himself
in the security of his hiding place, the bloodhounds of the law are on
his track. His departure revealed the secrets of his past life. The
gambling-house in Columbia Street, and all the nefarious practices
which had been permitted in that haunt of vice, were brought to the
light of day. A warrant was issued for the lawyer's apprehension, and
his pursuers do not yet despair of dragging him to justice.
Heaven help him, should he ever be so rash as to return to New Orleans!
Once in the hands of his infuriated fellow citizens, Silas Craig would
have to endure the horrors of Lynch law.
We have little more to say. Those of whom we have written, live to
receive the reward of their own actions.
Cora is a happy wife in our own dear native land--happy in the society
of the father she loves, secure in the devotion of her proud English
husband.
Camillia and Paul are the stars of a Parisian circle. Rich,
accomplished, and handsome, the young Spaniard and his wife are admired
and caressed by all who know them, but they have no friends whom they
regard with the same affection as Armand and Pauline Tremlay.
Our story is finished.
We have not been dealing with the shadowy woes of fiction, but with the
real sorrows that have wrung and tortured human hearts, the hearts of
our oppressed brothers and sisters.
If any line which we have written has gained one convert to the cause
of freedom, we have not written in vain, and the feeling of regret
with which we bid adieu to the kind and indulgent readers who have
sympathized with the sufferings, of which we have told, will be mingled
with the happy consciousness that our labor has not been wasted,
and that we have made friends for the great cause of Liberty versus
Slavery, as well as for CORA, the OCTOROON.
THE END.
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