Virginia Freedom

It is weil known that tliere are lawsin Virginia which forbid free people of color to emigrate and settle there f rom oiher States. T'ie Richmond Whig nol long since published the fulla w ing statement of ihe operations of these laws in a particular case: "Some time during the last summer, a colored girl, boni free,only fourteen years oíd, and n resident of the adjoining town of Manchester, paid a visit to a friend in this city Eitlier through choice or neecssity, slie recaained all night on this sideof the liver, without, however, the smallest iutention of becoming a re-idcnt. During the night she was arresied by the pólice, and, not having her free papers, was lodgfld in jail. Being perfeelly ignorant of the law, and ba ving no one to counsel or ndvise her, the un fortúnate creature was de'.ained in jail 45 days,nnd ihetl, by order of Court. sold for jail fees! Slie was sold for the period of 4.5 years, to pay the sum of $45, was purchased by a negro trader, and carried into captivity in a strange land, where she was sold again. Wa are infoTmed that she is, if alife, at this moment in Louisiana." -