as they are generally called among sla

we have only to make him the subject of barter and sale, a thing for speculators to make money on, for jockeys to deceive about, an

ows, and other live-stock! Tens of thousands of advertisements might be adduced to pro

and animals are divided into two classe

ody are distinguished into

vices of slaves are lepro

of horses and mules are shor

hirteen likely young negroes, among whom are two carpenters; four head of horses, two yoke of oxen, several head of c

ensburg, Prince George's County, Maryland, on Wednesday, the 20th of December next, if fair, if not, the next fair da

l offer his entire stock of blood h

hteen months; the purchaser giving bond with approv

mence at 10

el S

Gazette will copy

t auction.-A thorough bred colt, two years old the coming spring, got by Farmer, dam by Lafayette"! D. H. Candler, the sheriff of Montgomery County, Md. in an advertisement now before us, states that he has seized on execution, and will sell "for

good Bohea tea, bag Hollands, fine cambric muslins, and s

Gazette" of Oct

imported,-as men, women, boys. Also choice raisins of th

infrequently color their horses, or put on false tails, for the sake of enhancing their value, so similar arts are practised by the slave

on of blacking to color it, and with a blacking-brush we would put it on. This was new business to me, and was performed in a room where the passengers could not see us. These slaves were also taught how old they were by Mr. Walker; and, after going through the blacking process, they looked ten or fifteen years younger; and I am sure that some of those who purchased slaves of Mr. Walker were dreadfully cheated, especially in the ages of the slaves which they bought."-Pp. 45, 46: "The next day we proceeded to New Orleans, and put the

or alongside each other, how great a difference can there be in the treatment by the public of the two kinds of stock? Is the auction-block a scene for cultivating the affections of a poor slave-girl? Are the coarse and unfeeling jests there perpetrated ca

ives, of parents and children, who are torn by this terrible trade from all they hold dear in life, so long as their bodies are sound, strong, and healthy; so long as the investment retains its market-value? Of what consequence is deep, heart-felt agony to a speculator? Is he whose idol is gold to be turned from his purpose merely by the foolish w

ess (p. 12) published by the Presbyterian Synod of

the agony often witnessed on such occasions proclaim, with a trumpet-tongue, the iniquity of our system. There is not a neighborhood where these heart-rending scenes are not displayed. Ther

n," we find the following "

her three years. Said negroes will be sold separately or together, as desired. The woman is a

, Blis

ont L

"New England Weekly Journal" (Boston), April

bout six weeks old, to be sold, either with or wi

ertisement, a few years since, i

etersburg, Virginia, with one hundred and twenty likely young negroes, of both s

girls, suitable for nurses; and several small boys, without their mothers. Planters and traders are earnestly requested to give the subscriber a c

min D

S.C. Sept.

"Jackson (Tenn.) Tele

me Fanny, and says she belongs to Wm. Miller, of Mobile. She formerly bel

ropshire

e her children lived, and the laws of a Christian country consigned her to the jail! Perhaps, in

athers very tenderly lov

duty and privilege to present them unto the Lord in his own appointed

them to do every night a

children acquainted with, and out of which

to pray with and for their

·

eir children of bad company, a

ked to run away,-even for the sake of teaching them to pray night and morning! How thankful, then, ought you to be

peculiarly degrading influences upon woman. On some accounts, we would gladly pass over

ates, because slave-labor is very profitable there. "The domestic cannot compete with the South-western demand for slaves," says a writer in the leading Democratic paper of Virginia ("Richmond Enquirer," Nov. 13, 1846). The slaves in the South and West do not increase fast

in the legislature of that State, Jan.

have not the fine-spun intelligence nor legal acumen to discover the technical distinctions drawn by gentlemen. The legal maxim of 'Partus sequitur ventrem' is coeval with the existence of the rights of property itself, and is founded in wisdom and justice. It is on the justice and inviolability of thi

merly governor of that State, in his spee

can an honorable mind, a patriot, and a lover of his country, bear to see this ancient dominion co

College, speaking of the annual expor

es not check the black population as much as at first view we might imagine; because it furnishes every inducement to t

, a negro-raising Sta

h before the Colonizatio

slave-labor be generally employed, if the proprietor were not tempted to raise

13, 1846, "that negroes have become the only reliable staple of the tobacco-growing s

en from the "Charleston (S.C.) Mer

strong and healthy, never having had a day's sickness, with the exception of the small-pox, in her life. The children are fine and healthy. She is very prol

se will please leave their ad

could be inserted in the leading political paper of South Carolina? Will he feel any mor

ousehold work, especially cookery; is very hearty and strong; has proved her faculty

any human being. So essentially the same is the character and effect of slavery, wherever it exists! Does any one, and who does not, feel deep disgust at these recitals? Let

print the damning deed? If the latter shows hardened feeling, what does the former prove? If these advertisements were the only ones of the kind which could be cited, still they tell a story of brutal outrage, which is happening in this Christian land, every day, hour, and minute, to tens of tho

attention chiefly to those who make a business of the matter, "to gentlemen dealing in slaves;" leaving almost wholly unnoticed the vast number of instances of buying and selling slaves between private individuals, chaffering bet