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30 to reach Canada, I will work hard, and send money to pay you." This shewed a truly good and great heart, I need scarcely add, that all her children are in Canada. She died in a good cause. There is none greater and of more value to a human being than Religion, and Human Liberty. She was endeavouring to secure to her children the advantages of both, to accomplish this, she sacrificed her own life. But by this sacrifice, she obtained those advantages for her beloved ones, and died in freedom herself. Had she not ran away, her children might have been Slaves to-day, whereas they are free. This good mother is one redeemed from the galling yoke of unmittigated inhuman chattelism, and has gone through great tribulation, to join those who have "washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb."


 * "Hark, from Heaven a voice proclaiming


 * Comfort to the mourning Slave;


 * God has heard him long complaining,


 * And extends His arm to save.—

Proud oppression soon shall find its destined Grave."

Another interesting case is that of a Slave Mother, who fled from the dark dungeon of Slavery in Virginia. Learning that she was to be sold from her daughter and grandchild, though advanced in years, it seems she had an instinctive love for freedom, and attempted to achieve it by running away. During the night she travelled,