"Oh, when weary, sad, and slow
From the fields at night they go,
Faint with toil, and racked with pain,
To their cheerless homes again,—
There no brother's voice shall greet them
There no father's welcome meet them."
[220] Still, Underground Railroad, 443.
[221] Ibid., 448.
[222] Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, 293.
[223] Still, Underground Railroad, 27.
[224] F. L. Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom, 157.
[225] F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 444.
[226] W. I. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution; Macon (Ga.) Telegram, Nov. 27, 1838.
[227] Ball, Mammoth Pictorial Tour of United States, 54; F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 155.
[228] W. I. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution; Macon (Ga.) Telegram, Nov. 27, 1838.