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BLESSED FEELINGS. EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE. 

satisfied, for the present, except Adam.  Please to write to our people, and direct them to send their letters to you; and please, when you receive them, send them to us.  When you write, we all wish our particular respects presented to them.
"Your humble servant,
"MARGARET PATTERSON.
"MR. B. LUNDY."

3. A highly esteemed female correspondent, speaking of the recent benevolent conduct or David Patterson, stated that she visited his dwelling on the day when his slaves set out for Baltimore, and gave the following account of the solemn parting.
4. "The impressive scene was now about to be closed.  Solemn concern rested on the face of the mistress, at parting with those to whom her fostering care had contributed so much.  I saw the liberated captive receive her hand with sobs and tears; and I must confess that my own eyes could scarcely retain or reabsorb the crystal treasure, forced from its cell by this act of justice.
5. "Seriousness pervaded the countenances of many spectators.  The master, after taking a solemn leave, walked into his house with a cheerful mien (blessed were his feelings!) that seemed to say, 'I have washed my hands i innocence, and can now sit down under my own vine in peace.'"
6. This worthy couple have long been members of the Baptist Society; and often said they could not rest easy until something should be done for the enlargement of their slaves.  May we not indulge the hope that this is a "breaking of the ice" in the frozen state?  Or must we stand chilled, and look in vain for another couple, that shall come under the refining power of truth, and go and do likewise?

EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE
FROM THE GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION--'825.

A PARAGRAPH has lately gone the round of the papers, announcing that a gentleman of Virginia had emancipated upward of eighty slaves, and chartered a vessel to send them at his own expense to Hayti, but without giving the name of the author of so distinguished an act of munificence.
2.  We think it due t justice, says the Norfolk Herald, to supply this deficiency, and to add the following facts, which have been communicated to us by gentlemen familiar with them, as well as by Captain Russell, one of the owners of the brig Hannah and Elizabeth, of Baltimore, the vessel chartered.
3.  The gentleman who has thus distinguished himself, is Mr. David Minge, of Charles City county, living near Sandy Point, on James River.
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