Richmond planet., 1900-02-03

Mr.. Morgan OF Alabama, in his
speech before the U. 8, Senate on jan
usry eth. iu defending the attitude of
the South toward the Negro said:
"It is most disagreeable 20 every
honorable man in the South 20 listen
from year to year to accusations
against our Southern people OF frauds
in electors. Nor il it any RELIEF to
know that equal or more dangerous
frands are practiced on white men in
Northern States II Southern white
men have falsified election returns.
they have the stronger, IL not the bet
ter reason that they are acting upon
the same law Of self-defence that in
suited and outraged human nature re-
sorts to for the protection OF homes
and families, women and children,
from q race that sets at oenance Gil
moral restraints upon their brutal de-
sires and fills the country with horrors
that defy description and u retslistory
vengeance that infuriates its IN hietors
with uncontI ollable rage"
A PECULIAR sTATENENT.
The Senator then goes on to speak OF
the Negroes ss having cursed Snis
. country with their enforced presence"
Both before a1d since our civil war
Southern members of Congress, and
perhaps Northern ones, have uttered
fslsehoods in debate but we question
IL any were blsckef and more laden
with infsmy than this:-The Negroes
have cursed this country with their en-
forced presence: Are we TO Delieve
that our white winged vessels of mer-
chandise were peaceably moored on
the coast Of Africa and that the natives
."who were in Africa the slaves OF their
own kindred" as Mr.. Morgan declares
them to have been surprised the crews
by coming on board and compelling
them to bring them across the Atlantic
md here they then pushed themselves
in and forever after cursed this coun.
try with their enforced presence =
Does the Senator mean that he would
have us and coming generations be-
lieye that this is historyf Would he
cover up the truth and perHert our
faith? If so he is as near OF KIN TO the
Devil, the father of liars, as it Is credi-
table to be. and if he repent not the
indication is lat he has in reserve for
him the blsckness of darkness forever
THE SALE OF THE MICRO.
IL was not until after the Negro was
allowed to own himself, his wife and
children, and reap something of the
fruit OF his own hard labor that his
presence was undesirable. Indeed De.
fore that there were none whose pres
ence were more desirable by that class
of Americans which Senator Morgan
represents. Such was the demand fol
Negroes that they were bought and
sold at very high prices. We read o
pretty young girls being sold for $l7s
ami sometimes $1,000. ut seems how
ever that the nearer of kin these girl
were to the slave-owner the greater
was the demand for them.
Dealing in slaves" said the Balti
more Register in 1929. 'has become 1
large business; establishments ar
made in several places in Maryland ant
Virgins at which they are sold likI
cattle. These places OF deposit art
. strongly built, and well supplied will
IRON thunb-screw and gags and orna
mented with eowskins and other whip
sometimes bloody" s&S
Prof. Dew. afterwards President o
William and Mary's College in Virgia.
IA, said in 1892 that the slave tratti'
added largely to the revenue OF th'
State and lit furnishes every induce
ment to the master to attend to hi
Negloes, to encourage breeding, AM
TO canse the greatest number POSSIBLE
to be raised"
The New York Journal of Commerc,
of October 18th, 1885 asserted on gooC
authority that 40 600 slaves had beer
driven to the South from Virginia
that year, but little more than three
fourshs of which had selsp6ed." -,
LARGE NUMBER EXPORTED.