Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-04
COMMUNICATIONS.
NJ, January II, 1913.

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DEAR FRtENDs:-
The State of Virginia has long been proud
Of her name, proud of her influence, proud OF
her having given some four or five Presidents
to this Republic indeed, so much is suppo-
sed to be obtained, from bearing the name
''Virginian" that those persons who are so
unfortunate as to live in North Carolina, a
state but little known as such, are won't to
say, ''from North Carolina, near the Virgin
ia line" &c. | award to her also the honor
of having furnished more slaves for the
Southern market than any other State. |
think it is Judge Jay of New York, who
states that in 1886, Virginia alone, drove not
less than twenty -four millions of dollars
worth of human cattle, of her own raising to
the Southern Market. If this alone would
not give celebrity TO one of the American
States, | know not what would, Kentucky
proud of her sons and daughters too, is be-
ginning to vie with the sold Dominion :" in
the sale of her human stock. An opportnni-
~ was presented me recently, 10 witness the
comparative estimate, placed by these Nir-
ginian soul drivers, as Joseph Mason used
TO call them, upon these miserable beings
brought here to be sold over those from Mis-
souri, and Kentucky.
On the morning of the 9th inst. l was call
ed into the business part of the city, where
| saw some four or five ''platoons" of slaves
under the command of a man from the "Old
Dominion whether he belonged to the fam
lilies who claim to be the first" | know not,
this much is certain, he seemed TO under
stand the business of training "Niggers" fol
market, as perfectly as "A Yankee does {
men and women, boys and girls IN louR di
visions, on the bluff looking on to the river
the man commanding standing in the rear
the four '.plattoons'' were SO arranged, tina
standing in front or rear you could have
fair view of the whole of one company an
the right of all the others. If my fTien
Stedman will permit | will use one more
his old military phrases as they are now cor
sidered altogether "obsolete." "The tale:
men on the right and the shortest men on tn
left" In this instance ! can add and ,vOme
too, were ''ranked and fled" approache
the rear where the "Capt." of the compan
stood and propounded some inquiries, instan
w he called out "Sue, Mol, Harriet, &c
&c. Immediately the whole company face
about, stood in their respective lines ar
I'dressed by the right" held up their heaC
despite of the scene. "There," says II
man, s.you don't get such Niggers in he
lucky or Missouri, these are from Old Vi
ginia"!! He had travelled by a %circuito
route since august last through the Southe
States, and sold from the drove as he HI
opportunity, was encamped out about fc
miles from the city of NJ. He had about
left; here they stood before me, for sale
ranging from 20 years old, down to s.
Girls of I6, 700 dollars and upwards was al
ed.
IT was the most cruel spectacle that e
Saw. to contemplate these young women
1hs bloom of youth, at that season oil J
when, more than at any other, we look
ward impatient of time; severed from me
ers. fsom friends, from home shall say
the slaye has no home! No one to care
them. ,heir minds a perfect blank, mode
obliterated, tAsir virtue made the prey
some ruthless man; in time they will
come mothers, be The victims a sorrow, lt
pain, and a. last death their children "