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98 and as long as they were within hearing they heard the screams, the moaning, imploring cries for mercy from that poor woman; never, never did he see her any more. After this he ran away and came to Canada, a distance of twenty-five hundred miles to the Indian territory—from which he came to Canada. This man devoted himself to the elevation of his race in Canada for many years—he is gone to receive his blessed reward. I have heard him tell this story many times. Slavery is, as an English divine once said, "the sum of all villainies." True, this is an extreme case as to the courage, the intelligence, the ability of the man as regards the distance which he came; under other circumstances, and in any other country than America, the land of his birth, he would be justly considered a hero.

But as to the separation of husband and wife it is no exception, it is daily, yea more, an hourly occurrence, and in many cases by professing Christians. While I write, the various professing Christian denominations of the United States own seven hundred thousand Slaves, many of whom are members with themselves, and sold, in many cases, by the men that baptize them. I saw a girl sold by one of these Pharisaical Christians to obtain money for missionary purposes; thus one portion of the