Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-07-17

DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE-It has all the loath-
some features Of the forcing trade, with the add-
tional one of 'breedlng and raising slaves for
sales" which stands out in disgusting promi-
nence, defying all competition. Niles Regis
ter, published at Baltimore, vol. 35. p. A, states
that "dealing in slaves has become a large BUSH
ness-establishments are made in several places
in>Maryland and Virginia. at which they are
sold like cattle. These places, OF deposit are
strongly built and well supplied with thum-screws
and gags, and ornamented with cowskins and 9TH
er whips, ottentimes JloOdyr From these pris-
ons they are driven in droves to the southern
market, and the cruelties and atrocities practced
upon them between Baltimore Washington and
New Orleans, are scarcely excelled by the agonies
of the middle passage
The Maryve Tenn. Intelligencer of October
4th, 1885, speaking of these droves of human
cattle, remarks "That they are driven with
heavy calling chains rveted upon their persons,
their backs lacered with the knotted whip, trav-
cling to a region where theii condition through
time will be second only to the wretched crea-
lures in hell; this depicting is not visionary
would to God that it was"
The New Orleans Courier of February Is,
I845, says "we think it would require some cas-
ustry to show, that the present slave trade from
=, Virginia is whit better than the one from Afrl-
ca" And the Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky
y in 1885, in an address to the churches under its
care says: "brothers and sisters, parents and
children, husbands and wives are separated, and
permitted to see each other no more. These acts
=, are tally occurring in the midst of us, The
! shrieks and agony Qttn witnessed on such occa-
-, sions, proclaim with trumpet tongue the iniqui-
:, ty of our system. There is not single neigh
borhood where these heart rending scenes are not
displayed There is not a UiUoge or road that
= does not behold the sad procession Of manacled
outcasts, whose mournful countenances tell that
they are exiled By force from all their hearts hold
-, dear"
!, OF the extent this trade few of us have any
ho just conception Between the years 1917 and
Oh 1887, period of 20 years, 10000 slaves were
10 taken from Virginia, North Carolina and Mary
70 land, to the Southern market, agreeably to the
statement of the Rev. Dr. Graham of North Car
- DINA; and in 1885 it was estimated by the most
j.; intelligent men in Virginia, that 1870 900 slaves
IN, were exported from that State during the pre-.
60 ceding IL months About two thirds of these
al. accompanied their owners, who removed the re-
10 naming one-third were sold at an average o
ct 5000 each, amounting to "a 600, 600 of dollars
res which the domestic slavetrads poured into Vir
he ginia in one year In 1886, says the Maryvl'
r. Tenn Intelligencer, go, 900 slaves passed thro
&C. little western town on their way to the south
a. ern market, and in the same year four States i'm
70 ported 200,0 slaves from the north" In 1888
,od committee appointed by the citizens ofMobile
o., Ala, to inquire into the causes of pecuniary dis
nh tress SO prevalent, reported that between l93
VII and 1887, Alabama alone imported from tn
northern slave States, 100000 dollars wort
ofslaves annually, amounting to $40,O00,O 90
in four years, the price paid by one State alone
80; for the bodies and souls of men, women and chi
ons dren, in the heart of epublic-COr Trento
sno Gazette.