Why, Mary.”

Judy. October 24, 1883.

THE NEGRO’S COMPLAINT.

Forced from home and all its pleasures,

Afric’s coast I left forlorn;

To increase a stranger’s treasures,

O’er the raging billows borne.

Men from England bought and sold me,

Paid my price in paltry gold;

But, though slave they have enrolled me,