I now wish to raise $100 to buy the freedom of my sister Mary, who is

Boston, Jan. 19, 1844.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  It will be observed that the narrator married a second wife, without having heard of the decease of the first.  To explain this fact, it is necessary to state, that the frequent occurrence of cases where husbands and wives, members of Christian societies, were finally separated by sale, led the ministers, some years ago, to deliberate on the subject:  they decided that such separation might be considered as the death of the parties to each other, and they therefore agreed to consider subsequent marriages not immoral.  The practice is general.  It is scarcely necessary to remark, that a more unequivocal and impressive proof of the heinous nature of the system could hardly exist.  It breaks up the fondest connections, it tears up the holiest attachments, and induces the ministers of religion, as much as in them lies, to carve the divine law to a fitting with its own infernal exigencies.]