The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-12
Anti-slavery Tactfcs-A Slave Auc-
ton and q Peraanal Liherfx Bill

Anti-Slavery Tactical Slave Auc-
ton and . Personal Liberty Bill.
Under this head, the N. Y. Herald says that as
The time Of the Presidential election approaches,
the anti-slsvery tactics develope themselves, and
tie journalists of the faction resort to every in>
genious device to irritate the South on one hand
and to rou 10 the abolition sentiment of the North
on the other, exciting its hatred against the PEG.
pie Of the Southern States in order to deepen and
widen the lire Of demsrcation between the North
and South, % Is to prepare the way for an anti.
slavery issue in the conflict Of 1860, and to
sommats the long cherished designs of William IL.
Seward The programme (says the Herald is to
adcpt that denagogue a. the next Presidential
candidate Of Northern party, aud either to elect
hin or sever the UIicn into two halves when it
would be "a easy matter to elect him President
OF the Northern fragment of the dismembered re-
public.
A an instance of this policy, the Herald refers
to 40 account of q slave auction of 436 negroes,
which recently took place a: Savannah, Georgia,
Published IN the N. Y. Tribune, occupying whole
page oflsaded type, with large ad captand'aa head
ings and dished up in such a fashion rs to stir
from Ito depths the enmisy of the North against
the South, and to wound the feelings of the latter
70 the core. It is a feeble imitation of the style
Of "Uncls Toms Cabin" and "Dred Scott" but 10
we'll calculated TO exssperate fanatics and do gem
srAl mischief.
sHuman feelings" We are told, "were of no &C
count" In this sale. 1.-THE buyers We're generally
Of rough breed, slaugy, profane and bearish, the
petty tyrants Of the rice fields that border the
great Dismal Swamp" The negroes, which were
the property Of Mr.. Pierce Butler, of Philadelphia,
and sold 70 pay his debts, we're almost all of
"original Congo blaoknsss little defiled by the ad
mixture Of degenerate Anglo Saxon blood" Such
10 the language of the incendisry correspondent of
the New York Journal. These negroes .'were sent
- the shameless" and "the blades of grass on all
che Butler estates are outnumbered by the tears
that are poured out in agony at the wreck that
has been wrought in happy houses, and the
crushing grief that has been laid on loving
hearts" Then again We told that 'ssome OF
thsm were manned and wounded some SCARED
and gsshed by accident or by the hordes of ruth,
less drivers, all sad and sorrowful as human
hearts can be-" s'This sort of thing" SAWS the
writer, at 10 that makes MOI thern blood boil and
Northern fists clench. 1t was almost too much
for endurance to stand and those brutal slave.
drivers pushing the women about, pulling their
lips apart with their not too clearly hands. and
committing many another indecent act"
The design Of ell this, says the Herald, is suf,i-
clently evident; and of the same tendency ia the
personal Liberty BILL" recently introduced into
the n 7. legislature Already the law is as strong
against slavery ~ It can DO In New York, and the
object Of Introducing the bill Is piece of anti.
slavery tactics, particularly as it is in complete
antagcnism to the supreme law of the United
States.