Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-07
Correspondence of tho Boston Republican.
Mr.. Clay on Slave-Breeding.

Mr. Clay, in his speech of the 22d ult., took
MIR. Davis of Massachusetts severely TO task
for iniimating that slaves might be bred in
New Mexico, for markets in other States.-
He was shocked and surprised at this in
timuton, and declared this charge upon the
slavcholding States of breeding sldres for mar
ket is utterly false and groundiess. No such
purpose ever enters | believe, into the mind
of ANY stakeholder"
The Senator from Kentucky is not always
exact in the Use of language. Neither Mr..
Davis, nor any other wel-iniormed man ever
charged the slave States collectively with breed
ing slaves for market, for the obvious reason
that some of the States are buyers, not sell
lers of human beings-some States export,
and Others import slaves.
Mr.. Clay is wonderfully incredulous, and
wonderfully ignorant of existing facts, if he
truly believes that no such purpose as breed
ing slaves for market, ever enters the mind
of Virginid stakeholder.
Mr. Davis beng a northern man, is of
course an incompetent witness since we are
continually assured that the people of the
North do not understand :" the peculiar insti-
tution." Let us hear, then, what southern
witnesses testify on the subject.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in a speech
in the Virginia legislature 1882, declared
that the States had been converted into Zone
grand menagerie, where MEN WE'RE RAISED
FOR THE MARKET, like oxen for the sham
bles." In the same speech he thus compar-
ed the African end the Virginia slave trade I:
"The trade lAirican) receives the slave a
stranger in aspect, language and manner from
the merchant who brought him from the in
terror. But here, Sir, individuals whom the
master has known from iniancy-wbom he
has been sporting within the innocent gambols
of childhoOd-who have been accustomed to
look TO him for protection, he TEARS FROM
THE MOTHERS ARMS, and sells into strange
country, among a strange people, subject to
cruel taskmasters. In my opinion.i it is much
iCorse." -
So il seems, according TO Mr.. Randolph,
that in Virginia children are torn from moth
er's arms and sent TO market. What price
do they bring3 Professor Andrews, in his
work on "The Domestic Slave Trade" re-
pehts u conversation he had with slayetra-
der on board u steamboat in the Potomac
1885, "Chidren from one TO eighteen
months old, are now worth about one hum
dred dollars that little fellow there" point
ing TO a boy about seven or eight years old,
T" i gnye four hundred dollars for" "You
hpve great proportion of children" "les,
they sell well in Carolina, but they won't go
in Mississippi."-p. l47.
Professor Drew, afterwards President of
William and nary College, in his review of
the debates on slavery in the Virginia legis-
lature (lS3l-2h speaking of the revenue ari-
sing from the domestic trade, says: "A full
equivalent being thus left in the place of the
slave, this emigration becomes an advantage
to the State, and does not check the black
population as much as at first we might ina
ginee, because Il furnishes every inducement
to the master TO attend to the negroes, to EN-
COURAGE BREEDING, and 10 cause the greatest