Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-08-10
The Slave Market Outdone--A. White
Man Selling His Own Sons.

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Man Selling His Own Sons.
Sumner and his followers may prate as
loudly as they please about ''the barbaris Z
of slavery" and Mrs. Stowe may rack
imagination to create monster like the
brutal Legre, but we had an exhibition in
this town. during the examination Of those
recently conscripted, which, for inhumsn
,barbarism, we defy any slave mart in the
world to match. A father, who bad already
sold one minor son as a substitute to the
human shambles, where he fella victim,
appeared in ourtown on lastMonday,' drag
ging. at his heels two halfgrown, Alshaped
boys. They were all the SONS he had, and
he had contracted to sell them both as sub.
stitates. They had been bargained for by
sloyal' men. The smaller one almost a
mere child, was prospectively the property
of loud mouthed and .pestilent Abolition
ist-a huge beast of man, who stood six
feet two in his stockings, and weighed over
200 pounds. >
This intensely sdoyal" and dpstriotio'
fellow, when his own son, a. sturdy, well
grown young man, enlisted, followed him to
Chambersburg. and brought him back home
on the plea that he was minor, and had
enlisted without his fathers consent. Yet
he is always full of war, and eagerfor fight
ing SO long as it is at the expense of the
blood of some one else than himself or his
own family. Being drafted, however, and
wishing to lessen the probability Of such a
misfortune Detailing. him again speedily,
and impelled at the same time to save lit.
tie money, he had bargained with a brutal
father to pay. a less sum than three hundred
dollars for the body, the bones, the blood,
nay, more, the life of a child.
The father was actuated solely by sor.
did, desire for. gain; the purchaser. was
moved by the sneaking, white-livered cow
ardice that forbade his risking. his own
worthless carcass in war for the prosecu.
ton of which he howls daily, and by the
mean selfshness of his nature, which
prompted him to make7a cheap bid when
bartering for human victim. "A plot had
been made up by the parties to. this disgust
ing transaction by which they hoped to de-
ceive the Board. The boys were made to
lie as to their ages, and represented them.
selves as older than they really were. So
immature and youthful, however, was the
appearance of the little wretches, that the
Board refused to believe the statements
made to them, even though the father him.
self lied as to their ages in order that he
might beenabled to effect sale Of his off,
spring. They were both rejected for this
reason, as entirely too young for the service.
The overgrown human brute, who had
expected to save himself in this way, sor.
rowfully and reluctantly paid over his money
to saye his carcass fora time, and the wretch.
ed father, after reeling about our streets a
day or SO in drunkenness, went home much
disappointed, no doubt, in being balked in
the. sale OF his sons. There is no coloring
about this story, no fictitious Crossings. 1t
is-true, just as we tell it, and known to be
so to the very letter, by many who will read
this statement. We need make no COM
ment. We have seen negroes sold On the
block to the highest bidder, but that only
involved a ohangesof service. Here was
white many.with onessou whom he hadsoid
dead already, endeavoring to sell two more
boys to what was almost certain death. He
found. loyal Abolitionists ready aad eager to
become the purchasers of cheap substitutes.
Let us hear no more about the barbarism of
slavery, when the barbarism Of this war can
exhibit such revolving spectacle in the
light of heaven, on the free soil Of Penn
syl7ania.--Fmzton, Pa, Democrat. -. ,
EaYPT.-The Viscompte E. de Rouge
has addressed letter to NJ. le Duo de No