Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-04

SLAVE BREEDING AND ITS POLITICAL
CONSEQUENCES.

SLAVE BREEDING AND ITS POLITICAL
CONSEQUENCES.
A solemn meeting in South Carolina recently
resolved tGat the preset U two lrlshmcn IN that
State was uHSate to its institutions TEey were
escorted to Il railroad station, with probably more
attention than they had ever before received, and
commended to the charities of some other portion
of the world. Recently also II solemn meeting i'll |
Clarke County (Nlrgina.) resolved that the pres
ence of Mr. Underwood there was unsafe to the
institutions OF that State. Another set Of persons
led by the notorious Atcbisun, have issued a pro
camatiou that is UIsajc for the State of Missouri
that kausos should be free community We
shall not contruvert either of these propositions
VIII ther Patrick and Murphy would have over
turned South Carolina, or Mr. Underwood would
have destroyed the Ancient Dominion, is not Tor
to say. But the occurrence OF those events
gives some rightto inquire into the nature OF
that interest and anxiety which is felt III those od
States for the perpetuity OF slavery. Among the
very obvious facts is desire for its extension Ocer
ne,c territories. Another obvious factis that this
extension raises the price Of negroes by creating
demand where slave labor is more profitable
third fact is, that this again enhances the price Of
neg-psr IN the old Sintes THUS we have pocket
patriotism created among old States, where slavery
is ceaSing to be profitable towards the extension
and perpctuitv of slavery in the new States In
srch States as Virginia and South Carolina. Sidre
brediH1 becomes one of the means of wealth. The
surplus negroes, like surplus pigs, is marketable
crop, the greater return of money merchandise
to the State. 1t is true. that Christian gentlemen
and Indies do not pUrp0Sciy raise negroes for
market They would se0rn to sci! family negro.
But there are many circumstances, such the di
vision of inheritance; or the inpoverishment OF the
family, which make it inevitable. Again; there
is large class of people--such oyerseers, dri.
vers traders, police men, and many others, who
have direct, personal interest in the trading and
sale of slaves; and it is this class of men who raise
the meeting, and give the brutal tone to them,
which we find in those which eXled Underwood,
drove out the Booksellers of Mobile, and invaded
Kansas. 1t is nat the good and intelligent class of
men III the South who do these things
Passing these by let us turn to the coMsequen,
ces Of slave-hreedng 1t was not till 1920 that
Virginia derived a direct profit from the sale of
surplus negroes. Al:er that, negroes began to'he
more and more valuable, marketable article,
and have continually increased in sales since. Now
we ask our readers to note the fact, that at the
re,y perO9 in achjch sioce territory increased,
By the admission of Missouri 1920 Virginia be-
gan to hare surplus ct uegroes for market, be-
yOnd the wants OF their owners. This fact, and
the growth of slaves bred for the market is exactly
deducible from the census. Thus. the census gives
the ratio of growth for both slaves and masters.
1t also gives the actual popuiutiOn at each period
since 1870. II also gives us the ratio between the
number of slaves. Hence, we know how many of
each have emigrated. and what the proportion be-
tween them is. Deducng them from the whole
number of emigrant slaves, those which make the
original proportion of the whole. we have a sur
plus since 1920, which was sod in market, the
res alt Of slave breeding:
From 1890 to 1880 there were sold to go out
/ of Virginia. Is 600
From 1890 IT, 1910 40 600
/ From 1910 to 1850, 72OOO
| 30 years 10000
These are not those carried out hy their masters
to homes, hut those sold for market They
were. of course mostly able bodied men and NO.
men. aud, At $1,000 each. we've worth one hWtdred
dHd ilceHty miIiOH n dollars! In the last ten
years. this trade was worth to Virginia secsn nit
fioHS per dRHHRl. THIS fact explains AT once why
Governor Jnhusun, of Georgia, should find it nee
essary to treat an intelligent audience in the en-
lghtened ci,y of Phllad, phia, i'll sight OF lnde-
pendence Hall, to the assertion that slaves were
4 the same sort of property cattle, and could be
taken into any territory, like cattle. If this be
true, why should they not be raised and iattened
for market, like Durhnm cattle? We commend n
serious consideration Of these facts to any man
i who believes that there is something in humanity
which does or ought to raise it above the level OF
the beasts. Let him remember that nearly nine
teen centuries after the advent of Christ as the
Saviour of men, Governor johnson, of Georgia, in
the United States of America, announced that men
we're the same sort of property cattle to be sold
as such, carried as such, and held such. And
this is direct sequence Of the slave theory, and
in that doctrine color makes difference. If there
he any right TO hold slaves in territory of the
United States. it is just much a right to hold
whites as blacks And what is wanting but the
pOlcer to make slaves of the whtes2
The direct effect Of this migration of slaves tC
new territories is as wG have seem to make slave
breeding profitable, and create an annual revenue
from that source, AT first sight it would not bt
easy to that Virginia has any interest in the ex
tension of slavery; aud her good aAd honorable
peope have not. But when her deriving
seven millions per aunum from the sale of slaves
to new slave territories, we can comprehend how
her traders owners, drivers, and emgrating plan
tcrs have direct aud po,certh interest in extend
ing Sidue territory. Desire for political power may
+ actuate politicians, aad doubtless causes them I,
play on the rassiong Of the people. But there i