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Rh sold and taken away from her. As I was leaving I said: “Who is your master?” She answered: “Mr. Blair, of the Globe.” In the fourteen years of my manhood, that I acted with the Democratic party, I never said anything in favor of the system of slavery. If otherwise I might have done so, the interview with that old woman would have restrained me.