Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-13
American Commerce.

"Cash for Negrocs.-I will pay the hich-
est cash prices for likely young Negroes of
both sexes, from ten to thirty years of are.
All those that have such to dispose of would
do well to give me a call before selling. |
will also attend to shipping of Negroes to
any of the southern ports free of CHARGE when
left with me, as | have a private Jail for the
safe keeping of servants. For further infor-
nation inquire at my office, at Union Hotel,
Union street, or through the post-ofice.-G.
w. APPERsoN."
NEGRO Repository.-The undersigned has.
at a very considerable expense, erected and
fitted up, in a style of comfort and CONVENE
ence, a commodIous two.story building, in
Union street, second door east of Church
street, for the safe keeping and accommoda-
ton CT Negroes, both male and female (the
apartments being entirely separately which
are brought TO this market for sale. This
building is admirably adapted to the object
proposed, having airy and pleasant rooms,
and every convenience which could be de-
sired, besides large yards, walled in high, a
capaclous %ciStern, &C., which, while they Sc
cure the comfort of the Negro, likewise guar
antee the most ample security for his safe
keeping. In addition TO boarding negroes
- SHAtf Wv hAlhNiHlIitu 1lI IOStS heeDlnQ
on hand from time to time, for sale, snch Ne
groes as may be in demand in this market,
embracing every description of house and
field hands, male and female, young and old,
that may be called for, and upon terms en-
tirely accommodating. Besides the boarding
and the selling of Negroes, he will also
make exchanges, giving or receiving such
boot as the difference in the age, character,
qualifications, and appearances may Justify.
The highest cash market prices given for Ne
groes OF both sexes, at all times.-WM. w.
HALL"
The above ad vertisements are copied from
a recent number of a Norfolk paper, the inner
lean Beacon, which is doubtless as American
in character as in name. 1t will perhaps be
difficult two centuries hence, to make the
people who then tread above our graves be-
lieve that such ad vertisements were not gross
f%ctions, and no more to be credited than Gull
liver's tales of travel, or the recital of Baron
Munchausen's adventures.
The descendants Of the stern old P~uritans
have become heartily ashamed of the fanati-
cism of their sires. The burning of Qua
kers, the persecution of Bap fists, and the ju-
dicial murder of reputed witches, are black
deeds in the history of those of whom it was
POLITICALLY said
"They sought a faiths pure Shrine"
and their sons are becoming more and more
willing to forget and have others forget the
i~anatical crimes of their ancestors. But these
acts, criminal as they were, will not compare
in atrocity with those which grow out of that
system of commerce which has become the
life blood of the Old Dominion, and which
American law tolerates, and American reli-
gion sanctions.
The frenzied deeds perpetrated by the Pu-
ritans Of the 18th century, were deeds of
mercy and benevolence compared with those
of which the slayetraders of the 10Th are
guilty. The former were actuated by reli-
gious zeal, they were carried away by a IA
naticism that overleaped the boundaries OF
reason, and gave no heed to the voice OF
kindness and of love the latter are governed
by a spirit Of cool, deliberate, devllish caIcu-
lation which weighs humanity in the scales
and buys and sells souls for gain.
Read the advertisements again, and see
how unfeelingly these dealers speak of gun
dering family relations, tearing from their
strong hold upon the human heart the dear
est ties of nature, selling the brother from the
sister, the child from the parent, the husband
from the wife without any other considera-
tion or desire than 10 suit the purchasers who
gather like wolves around the SHAMELESS
Oh, what a rending of heart-strings, what
speechless agony, what intense suffering of
soul is Swallowed forth in the language used
by these calculating demons and then to
think that American law should endorse their
conduct, and American religion pray Overland
sanctify their damnable deeds.
The time will come when the descendants
of APPERsoN and HALL-if they learn what
an infamous traffic their fathers were engaged
in-will abhor their memories, and pray that
the hand Of Oblivion may blot out their names
and deeds from all of carth's records, so that
the story ol mans crimes may not be black