St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-18

''Niggggers be ed d-dp :; r. says Ned, "they'rc
as white as am" = : ..:..-
:. Ned had got a way of swearing, still I
needn't do it here, said Charley, seeing bis
mothers grave looks. =.
The lrishman said they were niggers and
slaves the captain had bought them.
"Niggers ~ says Ned, as red as fire, otis
an internal lie; they're as white as any
woman I ever saw"
"Tain't the color that makes the nigger
out here" says O'Connol, otis blood :;
they got black blood in 'em, and that's
enough to make slaves Of ''em here J"
"And what did ola Cock eye give for
'em ?" says Ned. - .''
Irregular fancy price, I can tell you. I
was at the sale at the St. Louis HOTEL
They're the children of a white man who
married his slave, a mulatto-regularly
married her, and when he died some re]a-
tions took tho gals as part Of the property
due to them; l don't think they sold the
mother, but they brought the gals down to
New Orleans to sell 'cm. never see such
a crowd as there was in the sale-room. All
the young fellows in the town there. They
stood inside bit of, rallied place along
with the plantation hands, and when they'd
sold all the "Sambos" and "Cloes" they
made 'em get up on the platform.
How the gals cried was a caution, and
to make it more pleasant, the chaps were
cracking their jokes about 'cm all the time
He put 'em up at 81 l,500-next lid was
S2,000-then $4,000 each. Sell 'em to-
gether, if possible says the .auctio@cer,
81, 500 each They stood at that little !;
then ran up to s., 700; the auctioneer talk
ed till you'd have believed there wasn't
such woman in the States. I saw 'old
Cock-cye," as you call him, pushing into
the front rank, and I knew his game. I'd
sailed with him before, aud l knew he'd
got an offer for two white women on the
coast; an old slave agent, Portuguese,
there, wanted to get 'em for his snuggery,
and had offered $50 full-grown niggers a.
piece for 'em, only they must be white. I
saw him pushing up to the front, and I
knew he meant to have 'em. They'd got
up to $4,000 each when he reached the
ropes.
Three thousand and one hundred,' says
he, and the gals stared at him, and the
auctioncer looked to see who it was, for
though he was looking hard at the auction
eer, it seemed as if he was looking a mile
away to his left.
What do you want en- Cor IAN old man
like you :! says one to him.
That's my business said the captain.
'Three thousand one hundred
A young chap offered $1,000, another
So 500, and then the chap with the ham,
mcr waited. Cock-eye offered 3,700, and
at last they were knocked down to him for
$4,000 each told you he gave fancy
price"
"What's that, English?"
"About E800 each. and that's bigsish
price to pay for woman who may die to-
morrow, or bolt any time.
They all crowded round him, and wish
ed him joy; some, in joke, offered him
$500 for his bargain on one of 'em, the
dark one; no, not he-he'd bought EN-,
and he meant to keep 'em; and he paid
half in notes on the State Bank, and half
in check. 'O'Connel,' says he, get a
carriage for these LADIES'
I went and got carriage for 'em, and
he handed 'em in-quite the gentleman
got in, and told me to mount the box. So
I got up, and we went to his boarding.
house, and he had rooms for 'em there {;
locked 'em up every day, aud all day; aud
when he wasn't there: l was; so that they
couldn't get away aay how"
"And you like that kind of job?" says
Ned.
"No, not much"
"What do you do it for, then ?''
GLOW much money could you lend Char
ley: ifhe wanted any ?"
"Not cent" and Ned laughed at the
notion Of his having any money to lend.
, "Well, then, could if I liked though
l amt going to, mind-lend him couple
of thousand dollars, and not mind it much"
"Itll be a precious long time before you
are asked" says I. What did I want with
his money?
"Well, then, after you'd got 'em to his
lodgings?" .
"Oh, ship got ready, and We threw some
gold-dust in the custom house officers eyes,
and slowed just the hatchways with cotton,
and cleared out with the gals on board, and
there's an end of it, -.
$50 he means to sell these women for
$50 niggers each?"
''That's just it; and it'll pay him we'll,
too: He'll get near 81 900 apiece for 'em
that is, for all he lands ..:, -.
And What;are you going to have for the
voyage?. Same as us p - ...
whats best known to myself, my boy"
1 got Ned away-he was wild.
"Hll beat that old Cock-eye yet, says he
I,ll manaaa .somehox To oh cot tha sc.,,;.,t