Manselling In Illinois

The following adverlisement appeara in tl;e Kaska6kia Republican: Executor's Sale. IWILL scll on the 3rd day of June next, at ihe house of the late Marie L. Blais, ncar Prairie de Rocher, in Randolpli county, HL, one mulatto womnn, 26 years old; one mnlatto man, 21 years old; one mulatto girl, 10 years old; one mulatto girl, 8 years old, and one mulatto boy 5 years old. Also - hogs, horses, catile and sheep, household furniture nm farming tools. Terms of Salí?. - All 6iims of five dollars and upwards, a credit of' rime months will be o-i ven - all sums under five dollars, cash. ANTOINE BARBEAU, Execuiorof M. L. Blais, dec'd. May 2, 1843, How is this? It is generally thought that Illinois is a f ree State. And yet they sell "boys" and "girls" along wilh "hogs, horses, cattle nnd shcep!" Will the Western Citizen explain? Have not. the people of your State Bense of shoine or ccency enougli to put brutos and human heings into sepárale advertisements?