New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-01
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food and clothing the portion Of the fororn Slave,
vtUe rek;pg gnreN, stsrss'i0n, wickedness sns
,hsue arc semh giy insepasbls with Ncrtherh free
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Cary out the principles which lie at the fouedatsa
Of hr. Bucbauabs administration, and which the
.Pprovers, at The late Syracuse Conyeaton, OF hi'
New Haven letter, are 90 ready to iodorse, aud We
stoud speedily have one half or third part Of the
Inhabitants Of the City Of New.York and Of out
Interior towns and villages reduced TO absolute
seIvtude. 10 that case, no doubt, . considerable
change would take place in our way Of doing things
Having occasion to leave the city, we should no
logger be of Ike lightning, as on the "Erie, OF
With the speed Of the wind as on the Hudson River
Railroad, but-M h,pp,ned to thi. very traveller q
leaving City Point (whero be had arrived ey
steamer in thirty six hours from New.Yort) fot
Peterburs-ats pace giving ample opportunity To
contemplate the glories Of sunrise, and In car'
''small and dirty-rs.tllDg like the bones Of
ca skeleton" over q road 30 frail and
shsky as to fully justify the cautious snail pace
Of tee locomotive. Arrived at Albany, the
hotel might be mistaken for hospital, a. hsp
pened to this traveller at Petersburg, while the
ersss growing in the streets might afford additional
evidence of the quiet rural felicity Of saveholdias
countries, which extend even into the towns. In
proceeding onward from Albany toward Rochester,
there might be ss much call for patience-supposing
the new regime inaugurated-aud for the per.
petuaI contemplation Of the example of JOB, -
our traveller found on tue South Side Railroad, on
which be proceeded from Petersburg 10 Lynch
burg; but all this would be more than made up for,
at lea.t to all men sound the goose BY the pleas
ure of meeting with sentlemanly negroes, who
obligngly take your trunk ten feet for the mod
erate charge Of o quarter" and the felicity of
tatipg your breakfast with :" an obedient, smiling
slave behind your chair, instead of starched
and insolent white man'-a luxury which must
be taken a. an Offset for tough steaks coarse Sheets
and landlord with pipe in his mouth.
Iustead Of the busy traffic which q traveller
through Western New.York at present encounters
with the proposed introduction Of Slavery we might
have along our railroads and cauas state of things
like that met with BY traveller in Virginia who, all
the way from City Point to Lynchburg seems to have
encountered but one MAJ of business-a very enter.
pri.iDg negro who at Petersburg acted as newsboy,
on the railroad as brakeman, and at the various
stations at which the conductor seemed TO liuger
to accommodate bis operations, as q retailer Of
pickled fish.
We are wrong however, to set down this enter
prisiDg negro as the only man Of business on that
line of travel for at the town of Liberty situated
90 bill sffordipg fine view Of the peaks Of Otter,
few miles distant, our traveller encountered an
auctiOneer, whom We take TO have been white
lnaD and of whose operations he gives the follow.
ing account
"Iu front of the hotel and opposite the Court House,
an auconeer nar ed bis position the entire day.
He was tall well made IAN, wearing white cravst,
and sloucbed fe hat. His voice very loud. Nov,
gentlemen, he began, bsw much for this here likely
boy hs great sc 'peS iUr io%sSUay Ss ana s
much? Halo, Bll,' recognizing an acquaintance,
whsts the news in Campbe-how the old woman
Just lock at this likely boy healthy, fat aud stseng
Three hundred-thaik you sir-ana hfty-pile il
on-four hundred. Stand up, you litte devil, and
show your ivory. Four urfity-seveIty.hve- = lot
Of hories for you direct tive hundred-ggog-aars
spuLk, Bill just what the old woman wants lreckon
FIVE nty.fve-twen'y fve-going, & Ding, gobe.
90 TO your master, boy Horses, carriages and slaves
wtre thus offered in succession bis LOUD voice hung
the whole street. and his loose wit keeping The crowd
in good humor.'
Whether the introduction Of such auctions into
New. York. aud the general reorganization Of things
after the Virginia model, would be 80 great an i'm
provement upon our present system as this news
paper correspondent seems TO imagine, everybody
must Judge for himself. Those that think so will
Of course vote for the nominees of the Syracuse
Convention.