All appeared to be wide awake, and we had quite a jolly time at my wedding party.

And notwithstanding our marriage was without license or sanction of law, we believed it to be honorable before God, and the bed undefiled.

Our Christmas holydays were spent in matrimonial visiting among our friends, while it should have been spent in running away to Canada, for our liberty.

But freedom was little thought of by us, for several months after marriage.

I often look back to that period even now as one of the most happy seasons of my life; notwithstanding all the contaminating and heart-rendering features with which the horrid system of slavery is marked, and must carry with it to its final grave, yet I still look back to that season with sweet remembrance and pleasure, that yet hath power to charm and drive back dull cares which have been accumulated by a thousand painful recollections of slavery.