The query was referred to a committee, who made the following report; which, after discussion, was adopted:-- "That, in view of the circumstances in which servants in this country are placed, the committee are unanimous in the opinion, that it is better to permit servants thus circumstanced to take another husband or wife." Convenient truth! A different rule would lessen the productiveness of the master's stock! Can any man who owns the body of his sister be expected to acquiesce in a regulation which would deprive his property of half its value! But, suppose the master wishes to sell the female slave for purposes of licentiousness, or suppose the master is himself impure, is this agreeable to the order of Divine Providence? Does any one say that either law or public opinion protects the female slave from the brutality of her master? The great frequency of outrages of this kind is demonstrated by the tens of thousands of slaves, more or less white, who are found at the South. It was a Southerner who said, that the best blood of Virginia flowed in the veins of her slaves! From the "Richmond (Va.) Whig:" "$100 REWARD will be given for the apprehension of my negro(?) Edmund Kenney. _He has straight hair, and complexion so nearly white, that it is believed a stranger would suppose there was no African blood in him._ He was with my boy Dick a short time since in Norfolk, _and offered him for sale_, and was apprehended, _but escaped under pretence of being a white man_! "January 6, 1836. ANDERSON BOWLES." From the "Republican Banner and Nashville Whig" of July 14, 1849: "$200 REWARD--Ran away from the subscriber, on the 23d of June last, a bright mulatto woman, named Julia, about 25 years of age. She is of common size, _nearly white_, and very likely. She is a good seamstress, and can read a little. _She may attempt to pass for white_,--dresses fine. She took with her Anna, her child, 8 or 9 years old, and considerably darker than her mother.... She once belonged to a Mr. Helm, of Columbia, Tennessee. "I will give a reward of $50 for said negro and child, if delivered to me or confined in any jail in this State, so I can get them; $100, if caught in any other Slave State, and confined in a jail so that I can get them; and $200, if caught in any Free State, and put in any good jail in Kentucky or Tennessee, so I can get them. "Nashville, July 9, 1849. A. W. JOHNSON." The following three advertisements are taken from Alabama papers: "RAN AWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBER, working on the plantation of Col. H. Tinker, a bright mulatto boy, named Alfred. Alfred is about 18 years old, pretty well grown, _has blue eyes, light flaxen hair, skin disposed to freckle. He will try to pass as free-born._ "Green County, Ala. S. G. STEWART."