The Traffic

QunïcY, 111, Nov. 13ih, 1841. Mr. EniTOR, - Living as I do, near the dark borders of slavery, the Mississippi river only intervcning, cases frequently occur disclosing ihe legitímate effocts of the ilPatriarckal Institutioo. I will briefly relate one: - Tliree days ago an o!d man wiih a dark skin presented hts papers to me; be was soliciung aid in redeeininghis litilc son,six yenir of ugo i'rom bondage. Ilis story, which I have good reason to credit, is in subctance as iollows: - some six or eight yeara ago his white folks, (as ho tcrmed hts masiers, they being brothers by the name of Gaterell, I think) desiring-to join the meiliodists, and professing to have some conscientious scruples about holding slaVea, proposed (o give him and his wife tiieir liberty,(they being wcü stricken in years) Hut it would impoverish them too much to emancipato their children, and notwithstanding thn o!d father'3. remonstrance they were all sold, fifteen in number, for tóe sum of ten thousand nine hundred dollars. They still put off the old man, (whose name is Georgo Jinkins) wiih various pretences, from giving him and wife iree paper?, and as he verüy thinks', bscause his old -wife unexpectedly to thètRj borne him anolher son, and there was a tempting prospect of selling him in a few years for ,1 goodly sum; but mark how the Lord divkleth the hope of the hypoCrite. - The Gaterells with their pricc of blood purchased goods and went in (rade; in nboul two years carne out bankrtipt; then carae their croditorsand levied on George, his wife and infarit son, they were soldat nuction, and a slave dealer beca me theirpurchaser. They being too oíd (o be profitable merchandigo down the river, he henevolently says to Goorge, i know ymir oíd master ntended you should go freej now, if you will mise me 300 I w emaucipate you and your wiVe. Gcorge hnd saved some money during his 2 year's ofri-ecriom, and by tlint of exertion. and by borrowing some from anotber black min ho scraped togelher jL400,h3 owner trus ted him glOO, since paid,and gave hi and wiíe a dee4 of emancipation. JHalso agreed to aell him his son at his ap praised value $"2,50, if he coull raise in iwo 5 ears,which expires riext Ch:ístnn - says he has bceu rifféred $400 for th boy, but George shall have hitn at vaula tion, if he raises the money. These vul . tures then applied to George to buy hi claim to liië own son, hut he says Missouri is not worth enough to do it. He ha paid $72; he worked one year for 150 the man fuited atul the poor black man has lost it all. List season his healihhad failed and he earned but liule. Aa a last reeJrt he eame ovor to Illinois. A Payson ibey coptributed 40 dollnrs; at Mission Institute (Theopolis) iifteen or tsventy dollars, The Congregational Church, Quincy, promise to take up a a contribution for hina at the Antislavery Concert. I hope, for his sake, it will not be sniiil. 1 asked George what induced him to come over to Iliiaois for air!, and wliether the ovner of his son was not afraid to trust him to bring him to a tVee State? Ho said, whcre he was knowri his word was never doublcd, and he promised to return at a certain time; that a vouittmnn, a jotirncymnn mechanir, in Pulmyra, advised liim to come over, anti privately gave hirn ñve dollar?, cbargiug hun not to let t hc known in Missouri he gave it to him, as it would injure him to liavö it known he eympathised wilh ihe black man.