the unabating fatigue of my body, had so depressed my fortitude, that I trembled at the look of the overseer, and was meanly anxious to conciliate his favour, by at|tempting personal exertions beyond my ability. The trite story of the insurgent army of the slaves of ancient Rome, be|ing routed by the mere menaces and whips of their masters, which I ever scep|tically received, I now credit. A slave myself, I have learned to appreciate the blessings of freedom. May my country|men ever preserve and transmit to their posterity that liberty, which they have bled to obtain; and always bear it deep|ly engraven upon their memories, that, when men are once reduced to slavery, they can never resolve, much more achieve, any thing, that is manly, virtu|ous, or great. Depression of spirits, consequent upon my blasted hope of escape, coarse fare, and constant fatigue reduced me to a mere 0