as well as mind. I want to know in regard to the
clothes that I intend making; it's best to have them fit as well
as can be. I shall work pretty much for women. I hope and expect
there are many friends of the cause who furnish clothing in the
city. They ought to be fitted out for Canada with strong, warm
clothing in cold weather, and their sad fate alleviated as much
as can be."

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The forty-one dollars, referred to in the above letter, and sent to
"E.M." was to go especially towards buying an interesting family of ten
slaves, who were owned in North Carolina by a slave-holder, whose rare
liberality was signalized by offering to take $1,000 for the lot, young
and old. In this exceptional case, while opposed to buying slaves, in
common with abolitionists generally, she was too tender-hearted to
resist the temptation so long as "they could be bought so cheap."

To rid men of their yoke was her chief desire. Such was her habit of
making the sad lot of a slave a personal matter; that let her view him,
in any light whatever, whether in relation to young ones that would be
separated from their parents, or with regard to the old, the life of a
slave was "peculiarly hard," "a terrible thing" in her judgment.

The longer she lived, and the more faithfully she labored for the
slave's deliverance, the more firmly she became rooted in the
soul-encouraging idea, that "Slavery will ere long cease." Whilst the
great masses were either blind, or indifferent, she was nerved by this
faith to bear cheerfully all the sacrifices she was called on to make.
From another letter we copy as follows:

JANUARY 25th, 1855.

DEAR FRIEND:--The enclosed ten dollars I have made, earned in
two weeks, and of course it belongs to the slave. It may go for
the fugitives, or Carolina slaves, whichever needs it most. I am
sorry the fugitives' treasury is not better supplied, if money
could flow into it as it does into the Tract Fund; but that is
not to be expected.

Thy answer in regard to impostors is quite satisfactory. No
doubt you take great pains to arrive at the truth, but cannot at
all times avoid being imposed on. Will that little boy of seven
years have to travel on foot to Canada? There will be no safety
for him here. I hope his father will get off. John Hill writes
very well, considering his few advantages. If plenty