hereunto affixed, and signed the same at the city of Raleigh, on the
26th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-two, and in the sixty-sixth year of the Independence of the
United States.

J.M. MOREHEAD.

By the Governor.

P. REYNOLDS, Private Secretary.

But thou art born a slave, my child;
Those little hands must toil,
That brow must sweat, that bosom ache
Upon another's soil;
And if perchance some tender joy
Should bloom upon thy heart,
Another's hand may enter there,
And tear it soon apart.

Thou art a little joy to me,
But soon thou may'st be sold,
Oh! lovelier to thy mother far
Than any weight of gold;
Or I may see thee scourg'd and driv'n
Hard on the cotton-field,
To fill a cruel master's store,
With what thy blood may yield.

Should some fair maiden win thy heart,