Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-31
Domestic Slave Tradc..Fugitiye Law.

Leonard Bacon, d. d., is writing a series of
letters to Gerard lIallock, Esq, in the Iad,pcn-
dent. From one Of these letters we extract the
following statistics in Te gard to the domestic
slave trade and its relation to the fugitive law.
The abolition of the African slave.trade,
then, has had tie effect of binding the slavc-
holding states into one community, held to-
gether not merely 10y the fact that they all
have slaves, but much more by the mutual
dependence of the slave buyers aud the slave
sellers. Instead of the African slave-trade
there has grown up an American slave.trade,
with horrors Of its own. The statistics of
this dreadful trade" are not easiy got at
You remember the alnrn of southern senn-
tors, when, in tic plan fur taking the census
of 1850, there had been inadvertently inserted
n question or two by which facts were to he
ascertained concerning the migration from
the old states to the new; aud how pcrcmp-
torily they insisted on suppressing an ia
quiry which was likely to reveal what they
| thought had heticr hc kept secret. Yctuow
aud then some startling fact, ariuly sufficient,
loons up from that valley of the shadow of
death. For example, MS long ago rs 1888,
Professor William II. Dew, of William and
| Mary College, in an argument against the
abolition of slavery which had been pro-
posed III Virginia, proclaimed the fact that
the higlrmiuded 80 old dominion" was ut that
| time exporting her own native population us
merchandise, at the rate of q coo souls every
year, and was receiving ~ return for them
the gross annual amount of 81 100000. The
census too, from one dccenna period to an
other, Notwithstanding the vigilance with
which impcrtincnt Yankee questions are ex-
cluded, reveals TO those who calculate"
some astounding facts.
In 1870, for example, the slave population
OF virginia was. lin round uuinhers) l25,OOO.
None eau doubt that the slave population of
that state, in respect TO climate, food, ,.treat-
ment, mud all physical advantages, is as
invorably situated for multiplying itself as the
slave population ofpcrhaps any other state
III The bnion-ccrtuinly more iavorably situ-
ated tllnn the aggregate slave population of
the Union MS whole Since 1920 the slave
population of the Union has increased from
,5}s 900 to 3, 3,lAS000 Had the slave popu-
lnii0n at Virginia increased nt the sainc rate,
il;c census of 1850 would have reported from
state SS3.OO0 slaves; whereas the number
actually returned by the census is only 172,-
52S,-lenviug Al | Az unacconnted for. The
nIanumissions IN Virginia, during those tl,ir-
~ years, cannot have been in n much greater
ratio TO the number of slaves, than the manu-
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