Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-07

number possible 10 be rUscd. NnRlhin, ~
| in fact, negso-raising Sdie for other Notes."
/ Let us now learn, still from southern wit
nesscs, something Of the amount Of the ro.
ceipts which thus encourage breeding, and
cause the greatest number possible to be
! ruisedn
/ Mr.. Charles Feuton Mercer asserted ia the
| Virginia Convention (i529b that The tables
| Of the natural growth oftlie slave population
| demonstrate, when compared with the lii-
grouse Of its nmnbers IN the commonwealth
for twenty years pas. that an annual revenue
of not less than MILLION AND A HALF or
DOLLARS is derived iiom the exportation Of O.
part of this population. ."-D Debates, p. Oh
Owing to vnrious circumstances, breeding
| became vastly more profitable after lo9--
We find in the Virginia Times tlS3bh an
article or the importance of increasing the
banking capital of that State. The writer
estimates the number Of slaves exported from
the State for sale, the I" last twelve montlis,'
at FoRTY THOUSAND, eoch averaging SIX hun
dred dollars, thus yielding capital of TWEEN
rr-rouR MILLIONS, of which, he contends,
thirteen millions might be contributed for
banking purposes.
Mr.. Gholson had none of Mr.. Clay's pres
cnt squeamishness about breeding slaves,
when, in the Virginia legislature, 18th Jan,
1891, he claimed the right of" the owner of
brood mares to their product, and ofthe own
or Of the female slaves TO their increase !"
and added, "The legal maxim of pactus Sc
quitur ventrem Is coeval with the existence
Of the right Of property itsell, and is founded
in wisdom and justice. IL is on the justice
aud inyjoability of this maxim, that the mas-
ter foregoes the service of the female slove,
has her nurscd and attended during the pc
A.
offspring. The value of the properly justifes
the expense, and do not hesitate to say, that in
its increase consists much Of our ipealth." il Is
no wonder this same gentleman was anxious
| for the annexation of Texns, declaring that
"he believed the acquisition of Texas would
raise the price Of the slaves .Gly per cent al
least"
We might 90 into the details of the Virgin
in trade, and show the barbarities and loss Of
life that utfcnd il, but we forbcHr, and con-.
tent ourselves with notices Of two dealers iii'
single town in South Carolina. John Wood
of Hamburg advertised that I" he has on hand
likely parcel of Ynyinia negroes, aud re-
Davis, Of tie snnIe ID ce ndveriiscdIfor sale
from pUgi,sia, aone huudred ai,I r7en1y
likely young pegroes Of both sexes, c<I|1|,E
them asmun eirlg snilabIo tor nurses, 4Iid
ss essssu 5 ) -
ERs."
We have now offered, we think. sufficient
testimony to prove that the purpose of breed
ing slaves for sale docs enter into the minds
of some Shareholders, and that Mr.. Davis's
inlimation to that effect was not "utterly
false and groundless." But we must still
call one more witness, and one every way
competent except that his memory is occa-
sionnlly treacherous. The witness we call
is the Hon. Henry CLAY OF KENTUCKY.--
This gentleman, in 1899, delivered an adj
dress before the Kentucky Colonization So
ciety. After showing that where the option
existed of employing free or siuye labor, the
first was the most profitable, he remarked:
" II is believed that nowhere in the farming
portion of the United States would slave la
bor be generally employed, it the proprietor
were not tempted 10 raise Sldues by the high
price ollie southern market, which keeps it up
in his own"
And now we ask in all soberness, if slave
labor is Improbable in the farming slave
States, that is, in those States which do not
produce rice, cotton, and sugar, and yet the
breeding, or if MIR. Clay prefers the term, the
raising slaves is there stimulated and encour-
aged by the high price of the southern mar
ket, why was Mr.. Clay SO shocked and sur
prised because it was supposed that the same
cause might lead to breeding of slaves in
New Mexico? Mr.. Webster, it is true, con-
tends that the law of the earth's formation
and Asiatic scenery renders it physically inn
possible for slaves TO labor in New Mexico,
but even he does not insist that it is inpos-
sible for them to bear children there. Now
ifthere he no such impossibility, why we
ask may not slave children he exported TO
the southern market from New Mexico, as
well as from Virginia, and the other farming
slave States? M w
August, 1850. A. b.