The Memphis Appeal

MASTER AND SLAVE.
A Present of $500 Given to an Old Family Servant.

The attachments between the whites of the South and their former slaves has been beautiful in its devotion. This has been especially so between the whites and their colored family servants during the days of slavery. Their meetings are as cordial and affectionate as the meeting of kin folk long separated. Before the War Wiley B. Miller owned Fanny Lofton and Mariah Parker, mother and grandmother to the wife of James Bacon, the popular and gentlemanly head waiter at the Peabody Hotel. Mr. Miller while living felt as much interest in these two women and the wife of James Bacon as he did while he owned them as slaves, and it seems that he transmitted this interest to his daughter, as Mrs. Floyd Jameson, the only heir of W. B. Miller, a few days since sent these family servants a check for $500 as a Christmas present. Of course there is happiness and grateful hearts in James Bacon's household. If Mrs. Jameson could hear the encomiums passed upon her father, girlhood and womanhood, by the recipients of her bounty, she would be as happy as those she has made happy. After all, the former slave owners are the truest and best friends of the colored people-especially those they once owned as slaves. The cruel masters, of course, are hated by their former slaves. but the tender relations that subsist between masters who were kind and the servants they owned can only be severed by death.