THE RIGHT OF PROPERTY.

We have heard the claim that some men are born slaves, but from the following fact we see that the all-grasping genius of slavery is not always contented to wait for birth. It claims a right of property in men BEFORE they are born.

“Another individual had bargained for his wife and two children. Their master agreed to take $420 for them. He succeeded at length in raising the money, which he carried to their owner. ‘I shall charge you $30 more than when you was here before,’ said the planter, ‘for your wife is in a family-way, and you may pay thirty dollars for that, or not take her, just as you please.’ ‘And so,’ said he, (patting the head of a little son three years old, who hung upon his knee,) ‘I had to pay thirty dollars for this little fellow, six months before he was born.’”—Ohio Report.