Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-27
From the Emancinator.
NORTHERN DEALERS IN SLAVES.

From the Emancipator.
NORTHERN DEALERS IN SLAVES.
We call attention to the following bust
ness advertisement, which came 10 US
lately in the columns of one of our South
ern exchange papers:
From the Alabama Beacon, Dec. 13.
SALE of NEGR OE >
"BY Virtue of deed of Trust, made
to me by Charles Whelan, for the benefi:
of J. w. & r. Leayitt, and of Lewis
Brown, all of the city of New York,
which deed is on Record in Greene coun-
ty, l shall sell at Public Auction, for
cash, on the main street in the town of
Greensborough, on Saturday the 22d day
of December next negro woman about
thirty years old, and her child about elev-
en- months old; negro girl about ten
years old, and negro girl about eight
years old.
WILLIAM Trap, Trustee
November 81, 1888. 176 81"
Here is an assignment, made by Whe-
Ian, the slaveholding debtor in Alabama.
of certain slaves, to the Leavitts, and L.
B. Brown, the merchant creditors in New
York, to be sold by them in default Of
payment OF the debt due; and this assign
men: legally accepted by the creditors,
and the sale ordered BY them for their
benefit The Intervention of Trapp as
trustee, is mere matter of form, for con-
venience
This case, therefore, differs somewhat
from those cases In which northern mer-
chant sends his demand to southern law
yer for collection, and the sheriff takes
the human property of the debtor in exc
cutlon, and sells it according to law. AL
though, in the latter case, we see not how
the northern man can exonerate himself
from the crime of selling his brother !;
because he who does an act through an
| other, does it himself morally. And no
man can properly send demand to be
collected in slave-holding state, without
giving positive orders to his agent or at
torney, that slaves shall not be taken for
payment, either by conveyance, trust, or
execution. But in this case, the deed OF
trust is legally supposed to have been &C.
eepted by the creditors. for whose benefit
1t was mode; and SO the sale was neces-
sarlly made under their orders, given eth
er by themselves or their authorized ao-
ent The trustee, having no interest,
could neither sell nor refuse to sell, but at
the direction of the principals. 1t was,
therefore, both in legal and moral intent,
sale of slaves, on the 22d of December,
( 1888. by y. w. & r. Leavitt s. Lewis
B. Brown, all of the city of New York"
AS such, let US look at it few moments,
| and endeavor to read its lessons.
OF one of the gentlemen named ;
know nothing personally. The others
constitute one of the longest established
firms In Pearl street, and may be proper
" referred to as fair sam pie of New
York merchants. And this is their NODE
of doing business. This is the course of
the southern trade" which has occa-
| stoned so much anxiety TO secure it from
the shocks of abolition. What these gen.
llemen have not scrupled to do. and TO ad-
! 0ertase IN the newspapers. probably the
great body of New York merchants would
do just as readily and as openly. |: is
"the way business is done,'' it is the
process of collecting southern debts,n
II Is what our brothers and sons and neigh
bors 90 when they go TO the South on &
collecting tour" it is the gathering in of
the profits, the preparation for full "ac-
count OF stock" at the close of the year.
1t shows that we Cf the North have 10 do
with slavery, and why we need to preach
antislavery at the North. The moral
sense of the whole nation is drugged 10
stupor by slavery. The body of New
York merchants would not send our ap-
ents to buy and sell women and children
on the coast of Africa, but they do it in
Alabama, without scruple or remorse. and
put 1t In the newspapers too.
The gentlemen referred to are profess
ing Christians. have fair standing in the
church, and bear conspicuous part in
supporting most of what are called "tbe
great benevolent schemes of the dav.n-
Nor IS 1t likely that they will lose either
oy this transaction, but will take their plac-
es al the communion table, and put the
money into the contribution box which
lhey received from this their public sale
OF negroes in Alabama, and meet in the
boards and committees to which thew be-
long, to consult for the spread of the COS
pei, the reformation of mankind and the
conversion of the world, the same as be-
tore; all showing that they have only
done as their nei9hbors would have done
Ia Ike circumstances or, in other words
that the general sentiment of the Christ. |
ian community in this city countenances
the selling of women and children in AL.
ALBANIA, by any whose interest requires #
Ii is this horribly depraved sentiment we
have to reform; and it is for this end and
not to wound or injure individuals. tina,
we feel bound by imperious duty to com.
mPnt On the acfS of ind;