sold when quite young. As they could not tell their address, and
also as the parents did not know what had become of their lost and dear
little ones, of course all traces of each other were gone.

The following facts are sufficient to prove, that he who has the power,
and is inhuman enough to trample upon the sacred rights of the weak,
cares nothing for race or colour:--

In March, 1818, three ships arrived at New Orleans, bringing several
hundred German emigrants from the province of Alsace, on the lower
Rhine. Among them were Daniel Muller and his two daughters, Dorothea
and Salome, whose mother had died on the passage. Soon after his
arrival, Muller, taking with him his two daughters, both young
children, went up the river to Attakapas parish, to work on the
plantation of John F. Miller. A few weeks later, his relatives, who
had remained at New Orleans, learned that he had died of the fever of
the country. They immediately sent for the two girls; but they had
disappeared, and the relatives, notwithstanding repeated and
persevering inquiries and researches, could find no traces of them.
They were at length given up for dead. Dorothea was never again heard
of; nor was any thing known of Salome from 1818 till 1843.

In the summer of that year, Madame Karl, a German woman who had come
over in the same ship with the Mullers, was passing through a street in
New Orleans, and accidentally saw Salome in a wine-shop, belonging to
Louis Belmonte, by whom she was held as a slave. Madame Karl
recognised her at once, and carried her to the house of another German
woman, Mrs. Schubert, who was Salome's cousin and godmother, and who no
sooner set eyes on her than, without having any intimation that the
discovery had been previously made, she unhesitatingly exclaimed, "My
God! here is the long-lost Salome Muller."

The Law Reporter, in its account of this case, says:--

"As many of the German emigrants of 1818 as could be gathered together
were brought to the house of Mrs. Schubert, and every one of the number
who had any recollection of the little girl upon the passage, or any
acquaintance with her father and mother, immediately identified the
woman before them as the long-lost Salome Muller. By all these
witnesses, who appeared at the trial, the identity was fully
established. The family resemblance in every feature was declared to
be so remarkable, that some of the witnesses did not hesitate to say
that they should k