Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Crowds ofslaves attend, and all are treated abun-dantly to refreshments of every kind. An old servant, who often speaksof the surrender at Yorktown, and ofthe scenes that wore witnessed at thetime by him—and who told me that ho learned to read when he went with his young master to college—now that heis exempt from labor, spends his timein readiiiix his bible, and in Hofhtinor hisbattles over again. 1 often see him ofa Sunday evening, surrounded by anaudience of his own race, reading andexplaining the Scriptures to them ; andthey, in the meantiiue, manifest theirappreciation of the sacred word, bylooks of the nn)st active interest, andexpressions i>i joy ami comfort. Wkllsuurcs, eighty-seven miles fromPittsburg, on the Ohio river, has a bank,a couithouse, live churches, with severalmanufactories, and about two thousandinhabitants. Rr/ruANY is eight miles oast fromWellsboro. It is a small village, butis the seat of BctJuiiii/ College, an institution withabout one hundred pupils.
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350 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. Pocahontas.— No other Indian fe-male ever rendered such a service to awhite man as Pocahontas, under cir-cumstances so well calculated to exciteadmiration. All have read the simplenarrative of her intercession to save thelife of Captain Smith, at that criticalperiod when his death would jirolialilyhave led to the extirpation of liis littlesuffering colony. But perhaps manyhave lost sight of one circumstance whichis calculated to enhance its effect uponthe feelings. We refer to the tenderyears of the heroine: she was a childof only twelve or thirteen years of age. From the accounts we have of thecase, we see abundant reason to believethat nothing could have directed her inthe course she pursued, but a strongnatural dictate of humanity. Yet whyshe should have been so affected in thatcase, it is difficult to say, as it may bepresumed she had witnessed scenes ofcruelty, bloodshed, and murder, amongthe savage race, and in the savage fam-ily to wh

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