12 slave’s feiend. [152 be bought and sold like cattle. I would die to-morrow to be free to-day. Oh, free breath is good—free breath is good!” She uttered this with closed teeth, and tears rolling down her cheeks.—Miss Sedgwick. WASHINGTON.----A DIALOGUE. Benjamin. Was Washington a slaveholder, Papa ? Mr. Durfy. Yes, he was. But he knew it was not right to hold men as property. Benj. I read in Washington’s Will that he gave a good many slaves their freedom at his death. Mr. D. He did so, and it would have been better if he had let them go free in his lifetime. Benj. Is it a good excuse, father, for any one to say, “ Washington was a slave-holder.” Mr. D. By no means. A person might as well attempt to justify drunkenness by saying, Governor A. drank
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