Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-12
ANTI-sLAvERY.


Of the IT, S. in 1899.
Never was there more fatal delusion
than that cherished by the early abolition
lists Of this country, and England in rela-
ton TO the abolition Of SLAVERY by means
ofthe abolition Of the foreign slave trade.
The effect Of the legal prohibition Of he
foreign traffic. on the part Of the U. s,
has been to give new life to the almost ex-
hausted slavery Of Virginia and Mary
land. II toaS ta,Hin taror OF the do.
u,,tie Stare trade. 1t made the States
above mentioned. to al intents and pur-
poses, the slave coast-the Guineas Of the
cotton growers, and rice and sugar plant
ers, Of the Mississippi Valley. II convert
ed the entire "chivulry" Of the Old do
minion into ncgro-breeders. watching the
man-market, and noting the daily fuctua-
tons Of the price-current Of human flesh.
Il was stated in the abolition debate in the
Virginia Legislature in 1892, that slaves
-" the Wire inia crops Of human chat
tells, constituted the only available wealth
Of Eastern Virginia In the language of
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in the same
debate. Virginia has been, by the tariff Of
the prohibition Of the foreign slave trade,
CONVERTED INTO ONE GRAND MENAe-
RSIE, WHERE MEN ARE REARED FOR
MARKET LIKE OXEN FOR THE SHAM
Dies"
This trade in slaves has greatly increas-
ed within the last FIVE years In Mssis-
sipp alone, during the past year, slaves
were purchased to the amount Of ten mill
ions OF dollars The traders have their
depots and slave factories, like their pirat-
ical brethren on the coast of Africa. Pri-
vate prisons, furnished with all the &C
cursed parapherna|ia Of qags, letters,
chains, whips, and handouts, are fitted
upto contain the miserable beings who are
thus degraded into mere marketable COM
modities.
The browning horror Of this abomina-
ton, in the fact that the District of Colum-
bia---the capical city ofour repubIic-has
been made the great central depot Of the
traffic in human flesh The slave trade,
carried on by sea and land between this
District and the southern ports, is as reg
uiarly and systematically conducted as
any trade that is driven between New
York aud Liverpool, or Havre 1t has
vast amount of capital invested in SLAVE
SHIPS, prisons, and MEN and WOMEN
Regular, and most extensive slave dealers
reside in the District Scarcely news
paper issues from the press Of the District,
without containing their unblushing ad-
vertisements. declaring that they ~ are IN
the market P'--that the shambles for men
and women and children are open day
and night, within full view Of the Halls of
- r,rraI h
curses" and loaded with chained slaves,
ply regularly between Alexandria and
New Orleans.
Throughout all the northern slave
States, gangs OF slaves, chained together,
may be seen moving towards the south
and west. The horrors Of the foreign
traffic are more than equalled by those OF
the domestic. The testimony OF Flr-
U;nian and stakeholder, may be adduced
on this point II is the language of Thos.
Randolph. nephew Of Thomas Jeffer-
son, uttered in the Legislature Of Virgin
ia e Is that trade better, is it not worse,
than the slave trade-that trade which en-
listed the labor Of the wise and the good OF
eyerv creed and cline to abolish 1t! The
IAfricanl trader receives the slave stran-
Ger in ASPECT, language, and manner, from
the merchant who brought him from the
interior But here. sir, individuals, whom
the master has known from infancy
whom he has seen sporting in the inno-
cent ga.nbols Of childhood,-who have
been accustomed to look to him for pro-
lection, he tears from Tie mothers arms,
and sells into a strange country, among
strange psopis, sE6jcet to erneI task
masters. In my opinion. sir, IT IsMucH
WORSE"
Reader this abhorrent traffic is
wholly WITHIN THE CONTROL OF Con-
DRESS.
The power Of Congress over It, Is de-
rived from the Sd clause Of the 9Th sec
ton Of the Constitution. "Congress shall
hive mower 10 regulate commerce with
foreign nations, and among the sererG'
States" Under the first part OF thu:
clause, Congress has already abolished
the foreign slave trade. That by the
same rule of construction, the power tc
regulate commerce among the several
Safes" would admit Of a prohibition o.
the internal slave trade. no one can doubt
Ire opinion Of DANIEL WEBSTER on thI:
point IS expressed in the Boston memoria
apaitst the admission Of Missouri as g
slave State, signed by himself and othel
eminent legal gentleman, from which TIT
following is an extract:
.. Commerce in slaves since 1908, be
mo rs much subject to the regulations o
Congress as any other commerce, If
should see fit to enactthat no slave shouIt
ever be sold from one Sttte to another,
is not perceived how its constitutions
rights to make such provisions could b