Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-19
RHODE-lSLAND 4 SLAVE MART.

Start you, reader, at Il is announcement
Well you may; but read the following en-
tract, and see its truth confirmed. 1t is Ia
ken from the Providence Journal Of the 18th
ult., where it appears in an advertisement
signed m. A. D'Woif,' as assignee OF Will
liam II. D'Wolf,-how appropriate the name
for ouch ferocious bipeds =
VALUABLE PRopERTY.
Will be sold at public auction, in front of the
counting room of Mark A.. D'Wolf,' in
BRIsroL, on Friday, the 1ith day of No
vember, at IL o'clock, noon, for the benefit
Of creditors,
All the right, title and interest which Will
liam II. D'Wolf had, at the time Of the ma
king of his assignment, to the following de.
scribed real and personal property, viz:
\ One undivided fourth part of a
certain Coffee Plantation on the island of
Cuba, known as the Mount Hope Estate
situate about 20 miles south westerly from
the city Of Mintanzas, and near the village Of
Madniga, with one undivided fourth part of
all the buildings, improvements, coifce-trees,
NEGROES, ~ stock, tools and utensils be-
longing to said estate
There is not our accusation proved? Is.
not Rhode Island a iona fds slave mart!-
Who will say she is noll When our eye
first rested on the above advertisement, it at
once reverted to the title of the sheet that con-
tanned the outrageous, Misunderstanding
notice, 10 see what Southern paper the Rhode
Island STAKEHOLDER had chosen through which
to disgrace our native State, and give public
ity to his own inldmy; when 10! PrgCidencc
Daily Journal stared us in the face! We
could scarcely believe the evidence of our
own eyes; we almost thought some occular
illusion had deceived us. But Move were
not deceived-it was a Northern print with
Southern principles thathad the auddcity land
TO whatservility too will not such a despicable
print descend thus TO display in its columns,
in this day OF anti-slavery progress, AN insulting
advertisement for the sale, at public auction,
at high noon, and on the soil Of old ROGER
WILLIAMS. of political and religions liberty
loving memory, HUMAN BEINGS! Ii
we had any State pride left, it was abasled.
if not annihilated at the discovery. Let the
sheet that could thus scandalize itself and
stigmatize its own State, hereafter bear the
euphonious title of 'Prooiaence Journal and
Stare AUCTION .Rdveriiser.'
Whether there were to be [tn mercantile
parlance) any samples Of this valuable prop
erty' in 'chattels PERSONAL on the auction stand,
on this occasion, for the inspection of pur-
chasers, the advertisement saith not; neither is
the name of the an ctioneer announced. Prob.
ably no knight OF the hammer can be found
in Bristol, so lost to all sense of shame as
like this baby-stealing 'Assignpe') boldly tc
have his name publicly associated with ST
vile a transaction. We hope, for the credit
of all the functionaries of this character in
Bristol, that this slsvemonger of an Assign,
ee' found it necessary to import one from
Charleston or New Orlelns, and to procure
for him a special license for the occasion.
Look, too, at the audacity of this Rhode Is
land stakeholder in styling his slave plantl
ton Mount Hope after the eminencc bear
ing that name Ia Bristol, and famed of yor,
as tho residence of the bold and daring Kin!
Philip, who crude savage though he was
kept no human herds Of slaves, disdaining d
like 70 enslave others or to be himself a slave
and who there long and desperately contend
ed for the liberty Of which the rapacious an,
cruel old Puritan, IN his paintings for annex
atom would deprive him, and who at length
fell a victim in her cause at the hand of Capt
Church, whose conjunction of name and deed
would seem 20 have been ominous of the spiT
Il and deeds Of those organizations which a
a later period have conspired TO rob man q
his rights, and trdmple his humanity in tn
dust What an outrageous ~incongruity! .
slave plantation called after Mount Hope
whose Businesses were once the shelter of tn
untamed red man in his freedom, and undo
whose shade he once dwelt, secure and haI
nv! As we'll call Ashland Bunker Hi
or the Hemitage,' ThermCpyin!
RHoDE-IsLANDERs! What think you ofth
eutr lge?-of Humanity being of red on Il
auction block on your own free ~ soll!-