But, if you please, I will now explain the note I sent to you this morning.

I heard some months ago that you had joined the Anti-Slavery Society." "And did you send for me hoping to convert me from the error of my ways ?" inquired he, smiling.
"On the contrary, I sent for you to consult concerning a slave in whom I am interested." "_You_, Mrs.Delano!" he exclaimed, in a tone of great surprise.
"You may well think it strange," she replied, "knowing, as you do, how bitterly both my father and my husband were opposed to the anti-slavery agitation, and how entirely apart my own life has been from anything of that sort.

But while I was at the South this winter, I heard of a case which greatly interested my feelings.

A wealthy American merchant in New Orleans became strongly attached to a beautiful quadroon, who was both the daughter and the slave of a Spanish planter.

Her father became involved in some pecuniary trouble, and sold his daughter to the American merchant, knowing that they were mutually attached.