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148 a service to his country to send them out of it; that they had been good servants, but that he was rich enough without them. 8. We have heard of splendid sacrifices at the shrine of philantropy; aged men, on quitting the stage of mortal existence, have bequeathed large endowments to public charities, and princely legacies to religious and moral institutions. But where shall we find an instance of the kind attributable to a man of Mr Minge's age? The case we believe is without a parrallel [[parallel]]. 9. In addition to the fact of emancipation of eighty slaves by Mr. Minge, of Virginia, the Richmond Whig of Friday last, says, that two instances of the triumph of philanthropy and patriotism, over the sordid selfishness of our nature, can be recited, equally as meritorious and splendid as that act of distinguished munificence. 10. The Rev. Fletcher Andrew, and ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, had recieved from the bounty of a dying relative, twenty slaves, at the time valued at ten thousand dollars; shortly after he attained the age of twenty-one years, although they constituted nearly the whole of his worldy property, this amiable and pious man, generously emancipated every one of them. And Mr. Charles Crenshaw, a farmer, residing in the neighbourhood of Richmond, has recently manumitted all the slaves to be owned, amounting altogether to sixty. 1bid. KIDNAPPING. [From the New-York Spectator of February, 1826.] 1. The Mayor of Philidelphia has recently recieved a letter from Mississippi, stating the arrival of a kidnapper, by the name of Ebenezer F. Johnson, with three negro boys, and one negro woman, for sale--the three former having been kidnapped and stolen from Philadelphia. The woman was a slave taken from Virginia. 2. The boys have fallen into the hands of a humane protector, and will probably be reclaimed. The mode by which they were entrapped was this. A mulatto man enraged them singly, to help bring melons on shore from a sloop; and when they went on board, they were taken below--seized, confined, and carried off. Temptation resisted, and Honesty rewarded. 1. A poor chimney-sweeper's boy was employed at the house of a lady of rank, to sweep the chimney of the room which she usually dressed. When finding himself on the hearth of a richly furnished dressing-room, and perceiving no one there, he waited a few moments to take a view of the beautiful things in the apartment. 2. A gold watch, richly set with diamonds, particularly caught his attention, and he could not forbear taking it in his hand. Immediately the wish arose in his mind, "Ah! if thou hadst such a one!" After a pause, he said to himself, "But if I take it I shall be a thief; and yet," continued he, "nobody would know it; nobody sees me--nobody! does not God see me, who is present every where?" Overcome by these thoughts, a cold shivering seized him; "No;" said he, putting down the watch, "I had much rather be poor, and to keep my good conscience, than rich, and become a rascal." At these words, he hastened back into the chimney 3. The lady, who was in the room adjoining, having overheard the conversation with himself, sent for him the next morning, and thus accosted him:-- My little friend, why did you not take the watch yesterday?" The boy fell on his kness, speechless and astonished. "I heard every thing you said;" continued the lady- 14
