New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-24
THE PROSPERITY OF SLAVERY.

While merchants, manufacturers, ship-builders,
and artisans aye pinched and depressed i. may be
gratifying TO some people to know that slave
breeding, which ia the main business Of the Z"
YETI dominant class in republican America, was
never more prosperous. The Southern journals
are filed with scco 1nts Of the selling and hiring
of slaves at enormous prices. AZ samples Of the
whole. we take from one Of them, The HGs'i'g-
ton Star OF January II, the two following NOR
ceaux:
"On Neg.Year's day, Gays The Stanton Va Se.,-
tator the negroes bslOL gDg 20 the estate of Ohm W.
Frazier decessed were sold II auction in this place
al prices which show that money cannot be very
scarce, notwithstanding the hare times. Inc pc
proes-men ard women, varying from IL to IS years
Of age and three cbidrep-brought s9,755, being an
average Of 5000 each
"PRlcEs OF NEGROEs ~ SoUTH-WEs1ERN 'if
oIsIA.-THe Abingdon Denocrat says: AZ pu1lt
ale in front of our Court House on the 25th oil De-
ceuber there were sold - slsves, belonging to the
e.tate Of the late Capt. John Dunn, deceased
credit Of six months was allowed. One man, aged 81
wears, brought 1913; woman, 4J years, 500
woman 80 years and child 10 month"; 5000; boy,
10 veers SOS; agrl, l2 years, s7Oj; boy, years
$500; boy, years, 1926; girl, years, SEQ
eirl 4yeaIs s4O5; another, sau age, s25i al an-
other, same age, $500. Thee are very high p-ces
when the strpgenoy Of money matters Is considered
bidding extremely spirited.
John Randolph predicted that masters In
Virginia would be obliged to run away from their
slaves. long before this time. He did no: foresee
the events which have given new impulse to
Slavery, and made slaye-breeding the most profit
able occupation in the country. Some Of them.
indeed, nobody could foresee. The opening Of
new and rich cotton fields on the Lower Miss
is.ippi, and the extension Of Slavery into Texas,
were far beyond the reach Of human foresight.
But could Randolph, with ali his contempt for
north err dougbfaces have imagined it to be posi-
bic that forty odd northern members OF the United
States House Of Representatives, would be found
voting to admit Slavery into boundless Terrific
ries, from " hich it was excluded by solemn and
time .honoIed compact Could Randolph, with
all his patrician dsdain for northern pettifoggers,
have imagined it to be possible that a northern
President ould, if he had the power, plunge us
into war with Spain, or pay FIVE times the price
of Louisiana ard Florida for tie acquisition OF
Cuba, and this for the simple and avowed purpose
of prcppiDg up the institution of domestic
Slavery In short, could Randolph with all his
knowledge Of the means and appliances by which
the southern oligarchy maintain their Pc xer have
imseined it to be possible that at this day, with
two.thirds of our white population in the free
States, the Government Of the country should bs
administered as il it had but the one object Of
extending and perpetuating Negro sersdon
1t is not to be wondered at, that while all
other market. are dull and declining. the slave
market is brisk and buoysnt. Slave-breeding is
the favored and pet branch of domestic industry.
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.