New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-12-25
Notes at the south-sisve Auctions and
Slavery Extension.

Extract from private letter from gentleman travel
Ing OF the South to hs friend in this City Commupi
Gated for The Tribune
have seen some strange things IN the way
which have made me detest Slavery more than
ever We hear of slaves being sold, and might
even see them. provided they are black without
a shudder as we think of them as hall brutahzed
negroes; but when we see. as did. halt dozen
giris from 10 TO % years old nearly white, with
straight hair, eyincing by their department as
much refinement and seusibility as hall the nopu
laiion of the North. the case Is different ms
saw going down the Alabams River. IL mace me
feel absolutely sick--like l felt when tr sa"
dozen with the cat o nine tails administered On
board of ship.
Some of them were quite pretty, aud sang issn'
ionable songs with much taste and feeling; ihey
were all neatly dressed aud had rings ana otne'
iewelry, They were evidently pettea mouse ser
ants add did not look as though they had ever
done IA day's hard work ia their lives. They ocoa
pied part OF the cabin.
Below. and belonging TO the same man. were a
dozen poor fellows fastened TO long cham by
hsnd.cun These were common field hands. they
mad been bousht as well as the girls 10 Virgins
and Maryland and were being taken 10 Louisiana
10 be sold to the planters. Had the girls above
mentioned been entirely white could not Rave
been more disgusted
A planter who Travelled with told me that IN
his section of country North Alabama and W est
and other improvements was most melancholy
The wood had all been cut Oft the fields cropped
till they became worthless no attempt being made
to manure the land, and when the plantation was
ruined the planter moved with his slaves 10 ne"
lands Ia Mississippi or Louisiana and when these
m their turn were exhausted 10 Arkansas or
Texas This is tue legitimate result O; slavery
This accounts for the desire OF the South TO procure
new territory from Mexico and establish slave
IN it-uot ss they pretend TO establish Poh'ioA'
balance, but to have market Tor their slave Popu
atou Not merely the increase OF the slaves IS re-
moved 60 the new lands but the capital also, II |
may so express my self from which the increase
believe Virginia and Maryland viii show 8
smaller slave population at the next census tnan
they did at the last This. too, when large tracts
OF dne lands IN these States are still lying uncuh
tivsted. thereby aifJrdng roOm ior the oo"es'''
Institution" TO expand
No State would consent to receive Slavery int
it's borders il once moderate white popo'auo'
was established: but the large and ~ msd'a'S pro
ft causes slave labor 10 be used 81 hrst ana 'ns
dark cloud sweeps over the State, the land gar
den of Eden before IL and In its track desolatiol
and ruin. 20 heart and soul for the W imot fno
Viso. II Slavery could be coDhned 10 the limits II
now occopies-l mean the particular planisiioh
IN fifty years II would be extinct as the land woulo
long before that time run out and the slaves be
thereby rendered worthless Beside this the IA
city 81 their escape into the surrounding free ter
f.tory would ia itself lessen their value.
RS- Hon. SIMON CANERos will accept our
thank. Tor q copy Of the Constitution Of the United
s,.es. with an Alphabetical ASsly.is; Declaration o
Insspeadence. tho prominent Political Acts of Geors'
ws,hipston. and much useful Information 10 regard Il
,hs Uni,aS States Government prepared srd published
under aresolutlon Of the Seu>ir
IMPORTANT TO MARiSERs.-The Light Boat fres
tsr1 xhIch VS. recently stationed oy authority OF 70
Goveromeot ssihe dangerous lstse koo"ns Toe So'
and Pissr a. the entrance OF the VINEYARD >oand su
lined .srioo. dsm.se IN .5e gale 1hursssy snd =
day nisht last having hsT ~ioosss tore NJ leasing sn
otherwise rendered unses~orthy. Ia coo" qaeoee
which she returned T. E1ssrtosn on NVnosr :,
President 10 said 70 be a sr-r and no~i'e 'uso
for the station to which has been assigned ~o'o
prossb, one Of TIE mott exposed ane dangerous epo
he atlsntc cost II is to Dc hoped ths'
viii tske tmrledists measures 10 have soi'so" ~
,,.toped upon this dangerous ledge OF r9ess PIC
arsslres5y csessa Toe ioss Of many ssiusos I've -
sestrvetoa OF vessels compelled 10 put into ihs VIM
,.rd SQUAD BY ssrsss OF wostnef, &c ~.
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