Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-16
From The Christian Citizen.
THE DOMESTIC SLAVE-TRADE

From the Christian Citizen.
THE DOMESTIC SLAVE-TRADE.
There is a movement now on foot at the
south which must soon annihilata the slave
trade between the States. Georgia and Mis-
sissippi have passed laws prohibiting the in
PRODUCTION Of slaves into their borders from
other States. In Alabama they are discuss
ing the necessity Of adopting the same course.
The Eutaw Wing contains a long communi-
cation addressed by Col. A. ]. Pickett TO
the various Grand Juries of Alabama on the
subject, In which he brings out many impot-
tant facts with regard to the increase of the
slave population in that State. In fourteen
years the number of slaves has increased from
lI7,459 to 265; Notwithstanding the,immense
number which had been carried out Of the
Territory in the same periol. He complains
mostly Of the traders from Maryland and Nir.
ginia, who have flooded Ala. with slave la
Dor, thus causing an over production Of co.,
ton aad depressing its market throughout the
world, besides carrying away from the state
a vast amount Gifts capital. In the little VIII
lage Of Montgomery, containing $500 inhab-
itauts, 500 negroes were sold last spring and
winter fresh from Maryland and Virginia,
at the average price Of $500 per head amount
ing in the aggregate to $500 In view
OF these things, Col. Pickett says:
Il ask the simple question-where is this
money! Is it circul ting among our own
c~itizensl Is paying the debts OF Tom and 90
ing from Dick TO Harry; relieving this mans sit
uation AMI benefttiug that one-alleviating
the wretchel condition Of the orphan or res
cuing from the grasp of the officer of justice,
the last remains Of the Widows mo!sel! No,
this large sum of money, our own circulation
taken fcon one town alone-this one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, is gone out of the
| St,to a,l /, $3.50, i'll II IL No.. ---..L.
ting TO the luxurious ease of Virginia Nabobs
who care 10 more about our distressed con-
dition, than if we were so many Hottento;s
who perhaps deride our State 70: her in
debtedness, ard in advance accuse her with
the intention of population.
wei, /! three hundred slaves were sold in
Montgomery, that is but a mite compared to
the numbers sold throughout the State. In
every town and hamlet, in every cross road
and public place, this traffic is successfully
conducted. Hence, no idea can be formed of
the immense amount of the already limited
circulation, annually drained from a suffering
People and invested in the interest of other
States. Reflect upon this subject and be the
judges yourselves. You all know how your
own neighborhoods are stocked with these
people, and how your own friends are depri-
we'd of the benefits of what little circulating
medium there is. So glaring are the evil ek-
fleets of this system when considered in this
point, that il cannot fill to strike every one
with convictions against 1.-THE most deep
AMI de iided. Nirg ma and Maryland abstract
all our money, and what do they give in rC-
turn. They give us nothing, but implant on
our soil their surplus negro Population-whose
labor poorly renunerates the purchaser, who
is bound to feed, clothe and support them
Some of these negroes are sold attheir native
homes by distrcssas, and others for crime and
misdemeanors while the greater portion are
worthless. To visit these people upon US, at
this %junctur ',anl urd II such circumstln,os,is
worse than if Engl md should force upon us
her c%onvicts, for England would be content
Tint they are upon our hands, without like
Nirginil, requiring a high price for them
besides!'
Ex-Governor Seward left town Yesterday
for Washington, to appear before the Su-
preme Court in the important slave case Of
Van Zandt of Ohio, who appeals from a ver-
dict of $500 obtained against him in a Cir.
cult Court, in an action on the case for aiding
the flight Of some fugitive slaves.--N. J..
paper.
At a court recently held in Boston, a case
Of damages was decided against the Wes-
tern Railroad Company, in favor Of a person
of the name Of Haleh, and his wife, in
which the plaintiffs were awarded $4,000.
The injury was received while they were
standing on the platform outside of the car
where they had gone in order to get of at
their destined stopping place."
The North Amcr'c can says:-"A movement
has already been commenced in Cuba, on the
part of the Americans and Englishmen, which
may make that Island instead of California
or Oregon, the real cause of war. Among
the new regiments from Spain, a large num-
Der are differed by Englishmen, and it Ia
strongly suspected that English interference
there Is winked at by Spain.
We see it stated thata daily paper is about
to be started in London, of which Charles
Dickens is IN 'iTal roprietor, viii capital
of $1,000 0 to conn enct with.