"
Pompey, who had been standing by during the examination, thought
that his services were now required, and, stepping forth with a
degree of officiousness, said to Aaron,--
"Don't you hear de gemman tell you he wants to 'zamin you. Cum,
unharness yo'seff, ole boy, and don't be standin' dar."
Aaron was soon examined, and pronounced "sound;" yet the
conflicting statement about his age was not satisfactory.
Fortunately for Marion, she was spared the pain of undergoing such
an examination. Mr. Cardney, a teller in one of the banks, had
just been married, and wanted a maid-servant for his wife, and,
passing through the market in the early part of the day, was
pleased with the young slave's appearance, and his dwelling the
quadroon found a much better home than often falls to the lot of a
slave sold in the New Orleans market.
CHAPTER VII
THE SLAVE-HOLDING PARSON.
THE Rev. James Wilson was a native of the State of Connecticut
where he was educated for the ministry in the Methodist
persuasion. His father was a strict follower of John Wesley, and
spared no pains in his son's education, with the hope that he
would one day be as renowned as the leader of his sect. James had
scarcely finished his education at New Haven, when he was invited
by an uncle, then on a visit to his father, to spend a few months
at Natchez in Mississippi. Young Wilson accepted his uncle's
invitation, and accompanied him to the South. Few Young men, and
especially clergymen, going fresh from college to the South, but
are looked upon as geniuses in a small way, and who are not
invited to all the parties in the neighborhood.
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