The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-11-22

births in his slave cabins; and few
evinced scruples as TO the means where
by this sresult was attained. The chas-
ltity of female slaves was never esteem
ed of much account, even where they
were white; and, now that it had be-
come an impediment to the increase OF
their masters wealth, it was wholly
disrcgarded. No slave girl, however
young, was valued lower for having be-
come mother, without waiting to be
first made wife; nor were many mas
ters likely to rebuke this as fault, or
brand it as q. a.shame. Women werepub-
licly advertised by sellers, as extraor-
binary breeders, and commanded a
! higher price on that account Wives,
sold inlo separation from their hus-
bands, were imperatiyely required to
accept new partners, in order that the
fruitiulness of the plantation might not
suffer.
We need not dwell on this new phase
Of slavery, its revolving features, and
still more revolving consequences. The
simple and notorious fact that clergy
men, marrying slaves, were accnstom-
cd to require of them fidelity in their
marital relation, until separated by
death or by inerorobis neccssity, suffices
of itself to stamp the social condition
thus photographed with the indignant
reprobation Of mankind. And when we
add that Slave girls were not only sold
on the auction blocks of New Orleans
and constantly advertised in her jour
nails, as very nearly white, well-educa-
ted, and possessed ofthe rarest person
al attractions, and that they command
ed double and treble prices on this ac-
count, we leave nothing to be added to
complete the outlines Of system Of le-
galized and priest-sanctioned iniquity,
more gigantic and internal than heath
enism and barbarism ever devised. For
the Circassian beauty whose charms
seek and find q market at Constantine
pie, is sent thither by her parents, and
is herself a willing party to the specu-
lation. She hopefully bids last adieu
to the home OF her infancy, to fin an
other in the harem Of some wealthy and
powerful Turk, where she will achieve
the life of luxury and idleness she COW
cts.
But the American-born woman, con-
signed by the laws of her country and
the fiat of her owner to the absolute
possession of whomsoever bids most for
her, neither consents to the transfer nor
is at all consulted as to the person to
whom she is hopelessly consigned. The
Circassian knows that her children will
be free and honored. The American is
keenly aware that hers must share her
own ritter and hopeless degr idation.
1t was long ago observed that Amer
lean slavery, with its habitual and life
long separations Of husband from wife,
of parent from child, its exile ofperhaps
the larger portion Of its victims from
the humble homes OF their ch ldhood to
the strange and repulsiye swamps and
forests of1he far southwest, is harsher
and viler than any other system of bon
dage OF which the sun ever shone. And
when we add that it has been careiiil-
ly computed that the state of Virginia,
since the date of the purchase of Loui-
siana, had received more money for
her own flesh and blood, regularly sold
and expor ed, than her sol and all that
was upon it would have sold for on the
day when she seeded from the Union,
we need adduce no more of the million
facts which unite to prove every wrong
blunlcr as well rs crimc-that God
has implanted in every evil the seeds of
its overthrow and ultimate destruction:
Greely's American Conflict.
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