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82 then wrote to her late master, and asked him what eehe [sic] would take for her child for. His answer was £50. She forwarded the money to him, through an agent, and he sent the child to her. This child was not legally her's, but her master's, therefore she must purchase it from him, before she could own it. Slavery steals from mother's arms their dear ones, and leaves them to mourn their loss. The Slave laws are not obsolete, as some would have you believe, but strictly conformed to, when the interest of the owner requires it. Another case, just in point, is that of Mrs. Forester, of Washington city, the capital of the United States, who sold one of her Slaves his liberty, for three hundred dollars, but his wife and three children remained her property, as he was unable to purchase them. The man paid the mistress ten dollars per month for his wife to live with him, thus he literally hired his wife. The children lived with their parents, so that the woman to whom they belonged was not at the expense of feeding and clothing them, As they grew up, and arrived at the age of ten or twelve, the mistress had them fetched away and sold on the auction block to the highest bidder. Finally, she sent the Police for Benjamin, the youngest and the only child left. Some kind friend concealed the child, quite unknown to the parents, therefore they could not deliver him into the mistress's possession, as the others