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The money which she took, to what use was, it placed? To purchase a _coffin_ for her child! To place the lifeless body of her daughter in its last home ere it is covered by the dust--this, and this only, was the good which accrued from it. And, gentlemen, he--Mr. Elder--is the MURDERER of that child. As such I charge him, and as such I brand him to be. But for his brutality--but for his avarice and selfish lust for gain, the mouldering corpse might now have been a blooming and happy child. And yet another word. When the so-called theft was discovered, and the accuser sought the accused, he found her by the bedside on which the dead child lay clothed in its last earthly garments. Disregarding her entreaties, she was torn from the corpse, thrust into prison, and the humble and servile hands of the negro were left to perform those sad rites which affection is ever the first to do. This is my tale, and--