“LIBERTY IS SWEET”
(By C. E. C. While travelling through the Lachlan district in New South Wales, some six years ago, I went to a tumbled down old ehanty for a drink of water. The occupant, who was an old negro, informed me that he had escaped from his American owner many years before the abolition of slavery, and managed to get to Australia as a stowaway, and he was still chuckling over his own individual escape. When I told him that the darkies were all free, he hugged my two hands for joy, tears ran down his cheeks, and, rocking himself to and fro, he would exclaim —“ Bless de Lord! bless de Lord ! Dis am a great day ! bless de good Lord !” and for many minutes his deep joyful emotion seemed to know n* bounds. The poor fellow could not read, and, being far back in the bush, had actually never heard of the r great and awful struggle which had been carried on between the North and the South, or how his fellow bondsmen had at last been liberated.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 9
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181“LIBERTY IS SWEET” Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 9
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