" Can you tell me whether there are any mothers
in Missouri (near Kansas) who feel toward their slaves who are mothers,
as you do? There are so many people from the North in Kansas (near
Missouri) who have gone thither to prevent you and your brethren and
sisters from owning a fellow-creature there, that I trust their
influence will in time extend through all Missouri, and that white
mothers in that State will everywhere have such humane feelings toward
the blacks as we and you possess.
All that I ask of you now, is, that you give Kate her liberty at once.
Oh, do not say, as I fancy you will, There is not a happier being than
Kate in all the land of freedom. "Fiat justitia," dear madam, "ruat
coelum." I cannot conceive how being "owned" is anything but a curse.
Really, we forget the miseries of the Five Points, and of the dens in
New York, Boston, Buffalo, and other places at the North, the hordes in
the city and State institutions in New York Harbor, Deer Island, Boston,
and all such things, in our extreme pity for poor slave-mothers, like
Kate, whose children, when they get to be about nine or ten years old,
are liable to be sold. Honest Mrs. Striker came to work in our family,
not long since, leaving her young child at home in the care of a young
woman who watched it for ten cents a day.
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