Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-17
THE MERCHANDISE IN HUMAN sINEWS.

A late Tribune contains two columns selected
from the latest advertisements and prices current
of the South. 1t is full in its description of the
present state of the Democratic man-market. In
New Orleans, Georgia and South Carolina it is
tlourishing, despite the hard times. Take the fol
10 sing as evidence, from a Columbia paper:
"a very prime gang of negroes were sold yestcr.
day by p. j. Porcher. They brought fair prices.
A blacksmith brought Sl,345, and q carpenter
Sl,l2O. The average prices of negroes in families
were very fair, and showed but little diminution
from former prices"
But there is a raw-back on this prosperity. If
slaves bring high prices, they will run away. But
then there is a remedy, as the following from a
Texas advertiser will show
"NEGRO DOGS.-The subscriber will keen, at
the plantation of Mr.. Young, in the county of Bra
zoria. the celebrated pack of NEGRO DOGS, for
merly owned by Mr.. John Glascock.
Price for catching negroes S25, or IS per day.
"%junel5 1t t"J. P0RTICE."
The Tribune concludes its Quotations" by the
following remarks:
"In connection with this subject, it may be ap-
propriately argued that a vital omission in the
proceedings of the meetings held by the work
ingmen Of this city to consider the present crisis,
in the absence OF any allusion to the chronic I'M
derestimatc necessarily formed Of the status of
the laborer and mechanic, so long as throughout
two-thirds of the extent of this country laborers
and mechanics are sold and treated just as dumb
brutes. Much rhetoric was expended therein
against the aristocracy of Europe and of Wall-st,
while no aristocracy falls to the level of that of
the South, in want of sense, humanity or educa-
ton. so long as $4,000 man-selling oligarchs ac-
tually control tie federal policy of this country ms
the Emperor Of Russia does the Holy Empire, it
will be in vain for the mechanics Of this country to
strive 10 be peers Of the oligarchs. The man who
wakes up in the morning on his estate, surrounded
by human beings calling him master, and chained
to his lands as cattle; who knows that by means
of something morally lower than s~laves-duugh.
faces-his or ters rule this nation, cannot respect
labor; he cannot honor the carpenter, blacksmith,
p~lasterer, bricklayer, farmer-for these he keeps
all as completely in bondage and at his mercy as
horses or oxen. Hence our national p~olicy-shap
ed by the South, and adopted by northern knaves
or dupes-must restricl the mechanics of theNVrtl
in their present inferior position SO long as i
lasts.
Out of sight out Of mind, and it seems impossi
bic for the mechanical and labOring portion of tn,
community, whose members seldom visit tn,
i South, to realize the radical difference between
, society there and here. Up to the time that incl
Tom was dramatized, not one in q hundred o
them could conceive Of the horrors of q slave
mart, or the shames of a slaves life. But til,
fierce struggle for daily bread causes even these
Z who, having slavery devolved to them at second
hand, should sympathlze with the chained me
chanics and laborers of the South for their owl
: personal sake-to overlook his claims to libert,
; and dignity when discussing their own. Do ouI
9 mechanics, indeed, ever see the Southern news
papers? So many of the Northern journals being
! doughfaced in their politics, our mechanics gene
8 rally cannot be aware of the mere look of the
Southern press.
!. The above samples of the staple of Southern
advertising are commended to the industrious
y classes Of this latitude. In their hours of ioy, a.
well as of tribulation, of labor as well as Of pub
r lie demonstration, let them remember that theil
great enemy is the slave driver-he who buys and
sells, works, lashes, imprisons, and burns
u alive, as the case may be, "inyaluable mechanics
o and laborers." There are not more than $4,000
!. oligarch of this class, who substantially and DO.
1 tentially sustain slavery, and dictate the laws Of
this Republic. How long will the workingmen oil
the North submit to the ~truculent rule Of this dis
NAL minority"