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Mr.. EprroR:--With pride have | often
thought Of these two lines, my Country
It's for theo; Sweet luld of Liberty" But
ask what is Liberty ! will tell you
what it is III side OF the river. There
was a woman on the Woods farm, that
had always lived there, and expected to
in the 'amily, Christian no doubt, for
many is the time her voice has been heard
praising .he Lord from the "nigger seat" in
Asbury Chapel. But alas! She does not
escape the blighted curse. She is a Slave.
Her Master died only a short time since.
On last Wednesday night 'he U. s. Mar
shall with two or three Deputies came
from the City Of Wheeling between dark
and midnight, and this Christian Mother
she must 90 with them, for che was sold
to 60 to Richmond, and her children to
st. Louis and down South. This was sad
news to her. She must leave her children
and her home forever, to 60 among strang-
ers, to never again zee her children. II
was enough to break the heart of a stone
to hear the cries and so5r Of tbs poor
woman and her little children, but the
hearts Of the slave dealers are harder than
stone. They forced gag into her mouth
and put her into their carriage and drove
off, amid her sobs and the cries and screams
of her children.
Were not these Philanthropic Christian
gentlemen, to gag a poohsVoman not al
lowing her to give vent to her feelings!
perhaps they were afraid she would be heard
and some of the neighbors might interfere,
that had not the fear of ten years in the
Penitentiary. But they took her to Wheel
ing and put her in the jail until the cars
started. A Christian Mother in Jail in the
Christian City of Wheeling with its church
spires poi intirg towards Heaven, and her
only crime that the color of her skin is a
title darker than ours! Christianity hide
thy face! Humanity blush with shamel Is
this indeed Land of Liberty! Bought
with the blood Of our Fathers! What do
you suppose were this Christian Mothers
thoughts thatSnight confined In her cell,
separated from all on Earth she loved for
ever! Would she not think OF the "Better
Land" and wonder IL they had any slaves
there! Would she not rejoice, If she knew
all were free in that happy place. The
dealers of Human flesh did not care or
think of just God that knows no dstinc-
ton, but hurried her of. There is much
feeling manifested in the neighborhood, oil
think that taking poor Harriet, separating
her and her children was wrong, but at
the same time all that are opposed to the
extension of this curse, they call BLACK
Republicans. Aboitionists, Disunionsts
and Traitors TO the Union.
But there are some liberal minded per-
sons in this part of Virginia, that are with
the people of Ohio against the extension
of this blightng evil, and saw with YOU
"No more Slave States" "No more Slave
Territory" and are for the admission Of
Kansas, as a Free State, in opposition to
Pro-slavery Border Ruffianism. ask
again what is Libertvl Is II to separate
Moth ers from their families, separate fami.
lies, drive Mothers to murder their infants
rather than see them in Slavery; Is this
what Liberty is in this boosted Free En-.
l'ghened Christian Country!
U. WILSON.