The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-08-19
Correspondence of the Republican.
MIR. Clay ON sIave-Breeding.

upon the sayeholding States of breeding slaves for
market is utterly false and groundless. No such
purpose ever enters, believe, into the mind Of ANY
stakeholder
The Senator from Kentucky is not always exact
In the use language. Neither Mr.. Davis, nor any
other weiinforned man charged the slave States
collectively with breeding slaves for Market for the
obvious that some of the States are buyers mot
sellers of human beings,-some States export, and
others import slaves
MIR. Clay is wonderfully incredulous, and wonder
tply ignorant OF existing facts if he truly believes
that no such purpose breeding slaves fer market,
ever enters the mind of Virginia stakeholder
MIR. Davis being northern man, is of course an
incompetent witness since we are continually assur-
ed that the people of the North do not understand
''the peculiar institution Let us hear then, what
southern witnesses testify on the subject.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in speech in the
Virginia legislature QS32,) declared that the State
had been converted into one grand menagere where
MEN WERE RAISED FOR THE MARKET, like
oxen for the shambles.' In the same speech he
thus compared the African and the Virginia slave
trade; The trade (African) receives the slave, a
stranger In aspect, language, and manner, from the
merchant who brought him from the interior. But
here, Sir, individuals whom the master has known
from infancy,-whom he has seen sporting in the in
nocent gambols of childhood who have been ac-
customed to look to him for protection, he TEARS
FROM THE MOTHERS ARMS, and sells into
strange country, among strange people, subject to
cruel taskmasters. Inmy opinion it is much acorse''
SO it seems, according to Mr.. Randolph, that in
Virginia children are torn from mothers arms and
sent to market. What price do they bring Pro-
lessor Andrews, in his work on "The Domestic Slave
Trade repeats conversation he had with slave
trader on board steamboat in the Potomac 1S35.)
"Children from to eighteen months old, are now
worth about one hundred dollars that little fellow
there, pointing to boy about seven or eight years
old, 81 gave four hundred dollars for' ''You have
a great proportion of children ''Yes,-they sell
well in Carolina, but they won't go in Mississippi"
p. LAT.
Professor Dew, afterwards President of William
and Mary College, in his review of the debates on
slavery in the Virginia legislature (1S3I-2) speak
ing of the revenue arising from the domestic slave
trade, says GA full equivalent being thus left in the
place the slave, this emigration becomes an ad-
vantage to the State and does not check the black
population as much as at first might imagine, be-
furnishes every nducement to the master to
attend to the negroes, to ENCOURAGE BREEDING,
and to cause the greatest number possible 10 be rails
ed. Virginia is, in fact, NEGRo-RAIsING
STATE FOR OTHER STATES
Let us now learn, still from southern witnesses,
something of the amount of the receipts which thus
encourage breeding and cause the greatest number
possible to be raised.'
Mr.. Charles Fenton Mercer, asserted in the VIr-
gnia Convention (I829,) that ''The tables of the
natural growth ofthe slave population demonstrate,
when compared with the increase of It's numbers in
the commonwealth for twenty years past, that an
annual reUenue Of not less than MILLION AND
HALF OF DOLLARS is derived from the exporta-
ton Of part of this population -De6Gssn e p M,
vastly more profitable after 1929. We find in the
Virginia Times (l836,) article on the import
ance OF increasing the banking capital of that State
The writer estimates the number of slaves exported
from the State for sale, the last twelve months, .
at FORTY THOUSAND, each averaging six hundred
dollars, thus yielding an income of TwENrY-FoUR
MILLIONS, Of which, he contends thirteen millions
might be contributed for banking purposes.
MIR. Gholson had none of Mr.. Claws present
squeamIshness about breeding slaves, when in the
Virginia legislature, 18th Jan. 1881 he claimed the
right OF 'the owner of brood mares to their product
and OF the owner of female slaves to their increase
and added, tThe legal maxim of spactus sequitur
yentrem is coeva with the existence of the right of
property itself, and is founded 10 wisdom and Justice
1t is on the justice and involabty Of this maxim.
that the master foregoes the service ofthe female
slave, has her nursed and attendeddur the period
OF her CESSATION, and raises the infant offspring The
value Of the property jssStifeS the expense and do
not hesitate to say, that in its increase consists much
lof ioedHh." 1t is no wonder this same gentlemen
was dhAous lot lne annexation OF Texas, declaring
that she believed the acquisition of Texas would
raise the price of slaves fifty per cent at Ieast''
4 We might go into the details Of the Virginia trade
and show the barbarities and loss of life that attend
i It, but we forbear, and content ourselves with no.
tees OF two dealers in single town in South Caro-
na John Wood of Hamburg advertised that eshe
has on hand likely parcel of Virginia negroes.and
receives new supplies every fifteen daysp' John
DAVIS, OF the same place, advertised for sale from
plrgtnla, Zone bundled and twenty likely Young
negroes of both sexes" among them essmalf girls
suitable Tor nurses, and several SMALL BOYS WITH
OUT THEIR .SfoTEHRs.'AG 3isE0 w1i1
We have now offered, we think. sufficient test;-
nony to prove that the purpose Of breeding slaves
Tor sale does enter into the minds of some sIavehod
ers, and that Mr.. Dayis's infimation that effect
was not 'sutterly false and groundless.'' But we
must still call one more witness, and one every
way competent except that his memory is oc-
caslonally treacherous The witness we call il
the HON. HENRY CLAY OF KENTUCKY. This
gentleman, in 1929, delivered an address before tbe
Kentucky Colonization Society. After showing that
where the option existed Of employing free or Slave
labor the first was the most profitable, he remarked
y IS believed that nowhere in the farming norton
OF me United States would slave labor be GENERALLY
employed, If the proprietor were not tempted 10 yaise
stares by the high price Of The southern market \
which Keeps itup in his own - II
| And now we ask in all soberness, if slave labor i
Improbable in the farming slave States, that Is. in