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engagerments

are admitted to be

abnormal and improper-

b. It is true that such a bounts

Mi

Amarriage, as that proposed might

induce some to select as their wives

from

the

Auctuerous

prostitutes brothels within their reach, but the better the clues of humigrants selected.

the less probability of this contingency;

and should its recurrenc

even

certain, I cannot look

upon

any degree of apprehension:

contrary, I believe that

be

it with

on

the

very many

- this unfortunate clare of females,

iwwere such

At

opportunity

biccented to them of creaping from

then terrible boutage, woli unt

gladů avail themselves of it and become thereafter gratifui aud virtuous wives, for a great

of

great univer them, perhaps a large majoriti

are purchased

as slaves in their

so

infancy, and are es trained up for the

cxpress purpose of prostitution that their mode of life

can scarcela be terned voluntary - Here it is truc

they are

free (and they constauth

their freedom in

take advantage of

this manner), but on the Imainland are l'imagine utterly without

they

the power, if without the

Imoney,

to

obtain their liberty - I am glad that this subject is occupying

the attention

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