American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-03-10
The Auctioneering of Massachusetts,
Girls in Washington Territory.
A PIQUANT DESCRIPTION OF IT.

From the Lacrosse (Wis.) Democrat
! SWEETHEARTs FOR CANNIBALs.-".
Pacific coast editor protests against Mer
GERS project Of shipping Yankee girls t
that region, and desires The press east c
the Rocky Mountains to speak out AM
put stop to this business He says
Let no more unprotected females be ex
posed to the perls Of these shores"
People have wondered at the sense 0
this Massachusetts, abolition philanthropy
for some time. 1t is much like the older
style Of dealing in the hands ONE girls o
Caucasia when hundreds of their "schoo
marms" were huJdled together and ship
ped off to parts unknown for the pleasure
of "Harem" scarem Turks. We sup.
pose the mode of disposing of these Van.
kee girls on their arrival to the Pacific
coast is something like this
The ship has arrived in port Notice
has been sent to The long haired miners
and rough bachelors of that auriferOus
section. The girls have been bathed by
squads, platoons and brigades, in the
mouth Of some waterfall from the noun
tains; their best raiment has been put Of d,
Standing on the poop deck. the charge
d'qfotr8 with hair pushed back from his
receding forehead, and sharp nasaI
twang, thus holds forth:
Meow yeou wild beasts Of this ere Pa
cifc strand, I've brought you a whole
Passel Of genuine ladies', right nice and
fresh from Bos.ing and along shore !
have picked lot Of gals, fresh as daisy
and lively as butterflies! l won't sell the
entire lot to one man, for that would be
too much Of good thing, but III sell
each of you little charmer, warranted
2ot to Gu. in the eye, big enough for the
tales. miner, and small enough for the
least there is among you! Walk up feI.
lows. Stand up to the tafrail gals. No
crowding on the hawser! Get eout your
dust aud select your gal;
THE first III offer, felers, i3 freck.
led face school>marm, named Betsey
Jane. Tother name amt no matter
You can gin her yeourn! She is nine
teen years old by the Bible, has good
teeth, twenty seven inches round the
waist and is warranted kind in harness
How much for Betsey? Sold to Jack
Longbeard for five hundred dollars
Good. bye, Bet.
The next gal, ladies and gentlemen,
| mean fellers, is sly puss, named Phil
la Malura She is choice gal, raised in
Bosting-poor but honest pareuts-early
Injured to the Gospel and Abolitionism,
and warranted perfect as far as heard
from She can darn a stocking or make
a pumpkin pie, in the twinkling of An
eye, and she can heave sigh, you bet
She is going on twenty years-has g..
cheek ike a sPi,zenberg, the sweetest lips
and most dainty breath you ever tasted
all for-siz hundred, make it nine, and
down she goes to Capt. Bull of the
w oods for nine hundred
The next animile-oh, sweetheart (!
'ellers, is blue eyed Yankee gal, named
Jerusha Jane-rcver mind her other
laue. She is q Dustin gal-Knows all
ler leuors-has constitution Ike a tea
,e,,le, which is good after its noes is
shocked off for all it will fetch, and is an
,rDamen; to her sex or any other man
She is twenty-five years old-aint SO by :
.ly handsome, but is heavy on the )
Jug, and is warranted to last life-time, :
she don't die flst. How much for her?
Come, wake up, you fellers Massachu
etts wants to eulishten you Here is :
be best chance for happines-only few q
lOre left Sold to daredevil Tom for
iiy ounces Of dust
Now, fel.ers, stand up close. Here >
a sumner. Tabi.ha Marier, as was her
lo,her before her, also her grandmother.
he is nineteen years old, poor but honest .
srents, eats bu, lttle; pine gum lunch
I'LL last her a week. Sold for no fault, =,
ut Massachusetts, has no further use, and f,
,kes this means to pay her war tax
'ome up aud feel OF this lot, She never
colds except in anger, and like George
Washington, never chopped a tree with !
er little hstohet She is warranted gen. =
me, and il not sold will be thrown ashore
r you ielIers to play with-and over she :
pes, for its all chance, you know -