Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-01

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ixty-four-sixty-four-sixty-four hun
lred and sixty-four hundred end sixty
dollars bid-going at four hundred and
sixty dollars, and gone-if there is no
other bid-four h-u-n-dred ende'-
Seventy said the dark man.
I need not continue the report.
To induce the buyers present to pur-
chase her, the girl was ordered to 90 down |
a second time, to walk about, and to hold |
up her head. She was finally knocked .
down to Mr.. Philorife, of the narrow
brimmed hat, for five hundred and fifty
dollars.
The second lot consisted of a young
man, who was started at seven hundred
dollars, and sold for eight hundred and
ninety-fve dollars.
A thousand dollar nigger'-so the
aucdoneer styled a strong, healthy, athlet-
ic specimen of Southern fesh-goods, was
the next piece of merchandise offered
for sale; but as not more than eight
hundred dollars were bid for him, he was
reserved for a more convenient season.
A mulatto-a kind-looking man of
forty-fve-was next put up but no bids
vrsra mazda for hin,
That's all, gentlemen, said the auc-
/ tioneer, as he descended from his South
ern platform-this truly national and
democratic platform I don't think l
can offer you any thing else to-day.
This way-over the way, gentlemen !
tolled strong, iron-toned voice at the
door.
We went over the way into another
auction-room, lat the corner ofthestreets)
and saw two young female children sold
into lifelong slavery; doomed to forego,
whenever and so often as their masters
willed it, all true domestic happiness in
this world; condemned to total ignorance
of the pleasures of knowledge, of home,
of liberty; sentenced 10 be whipped, i'm
IPrisoned, or corrupted, as the anger, the
caprice, or the lust of their buyers deem
/ ed proper; forced TO see their husbands
lashed, their daughters polluted, their sons
sold into distant States. God bless you
Mrs. Stowe? involuntarily calculated
in the slave shambles, as I saw these
children sold, and thought of their sac
prospective fate.
I entered third room. One mar
about twenty-five years of age, warrant
ed sound and strong was sold for sever
hundred dollars. Hewas a captured run
away. The owner. or rather the trustee
Of this slave, cut quite conspicuous fig
ure in the room-a little, Dutch-built
blue-eyed man, very timber indeed botl
of limb and tongue. He strutted abou
= with little stick in his hand. now here
now there; talking necessarily and t
everybody; his light-colored overcoat
ike the white plume of Henry of Nav
ARE, always visible in the thickest of th
crowd.
1t would express but a faint idea c
his state Of mind, were I to say that
was somewhat agitated. Very faint, il
deed. Angry is equally inexpensive
q Mad to the bung and billing over, a
though it has not the sanction of classici
usage, Is the only phrase which is at a
n appropriate to the little mans mental COZ
70 dition.
II Would you believe ii, sir rhe snappe
: at me; be actually ran away; ofere
one hundred dollars reward, too, and
j., didn't hear tell of him for two years ar
three monthsp
could hardly suppress a smile at Il
little mans ludicrously angry expressio
- as thought of the very virtuous ofent
&c that the cause of his indignation had cor
=, mitted. As I saw he expected me to 81
something, exclaimed;
., Really! Twoyears and three month
nt Where did you find him finally?
o. In saloon at Petersburg he saij
~ 'where'-here he raised his voice so tn
every one could here him where,
dare say, the fellow made as good mi
juleps as anybody need drink ?
Isay that the slave was standing
a hind the platform-which in this roc
Gu was about FIVE feet Highland that
was surrounded by crowd of spectato
a 1 left the little man angry and went up
NJ the crowd.
Perhaps, my readers, you may be d
posed to doubt what | am about to add
lis but it is a Gods truth, notwithstandi
ty its obstinate non-conformity with sol
fly Northern 'South-side' view of SLAYER
ur The slave was dressed in his pan
ed looms, shirt and vest. His vest was
IN moved, and his breast and neck expos,