both coat and pantaloons of handsome grey mixed; no doubt
other clothing not recollected. He had with him a common silver watch;
he wears his pantaloons generally very tight in the legs. _Said boy_ is
in a manner _white_, would be passed by _and taken for a white man_.
His _hair_ is _long and straight_, like that of a _white_ person; looks
very steady when spoken to, speaks slowly, and would not be likely to
look a person full in the face when speaking to him. It is believed he
is making his way to Canada by way of Ohio. I will give twenty dollars
for the apprehension of said slave if taken in the county, or fifty
dollars if taken out of the county, and secured so that I recover him
again.

"Andrew Beirne, junior,

"Union Monroe City,

"July 31st, 1838. Virginia."

The above is a curious document, independently of its proving the manner
in which man preys upon his fellow-man in this land of liberty and
equality. It is a well-known fact, that a considerable portion of Mr
Jefferson's slaves were his own children. If any of them absconded, he
would smile, thereby implying that he should not be very particular in
looking after them; and yet this man, this great and _good_ man, as Miss
Martineau calls him, this man who penned the paragraph I have quoted, as
having been erased from the Declaration of Independence, who asserted
that the slavery of the negro was a violation of the most sacred rights
of life and liberty, permitted these his slaves and his children, the
issue of his own loins, to be sold at auction after his demise, not even
emancipating them, as he might have done, before his death. And, but
lately, a member of congress for Georgia, whose name I shall not
mention, brought up a fine family of children, his own issue by a female
slave; for many years acknowledged them us his own children; permitted
them to call him by the endearing title of _papa_, and eventually the
whole of them were sold by public auction, and that, too, during his own
lifetime!

But there is, I am sorry to say, a more horrible instance on record and
one well authenticated. A planter of good family (I shall not mention
his name or the state in which it occurred, as he was not so much to
blame as were the laws), connected himself with one of his own female
slaves, who was nearly white; the fruits of this connexion were two
daughters, very beautiful girls, who were sent to England to be
educated.

They were both grown up when the