Richmond planet., 1900-02-03
A MHITELADY
SPEAKS AGAIN !.
Senator MOrgan'S Assertions.
THE INFAMY OF THE SLAVE
TRADE
A Gloomy Picture Of Past Con
ditionS.
AUTHORITIES CITED.
AUTHORITIES CITED.

was 10000; the aggregate value OF
whom was computed &C $50 600, 900 ["
In 1886 the number exported from
Virgiuis was estimated at 12o 600.
each slave averaging ss least $500
making an aggregate of $72 0O0,o0o"
The horrible extent OF this evil can
be conceived when reading an extract
from n speech made by a member OF
the Virgins House OF Delegates in
1892 "Slsves constitute the entire
wealth of the State, all the productive
capacity VirGiHis possesses"
The natural increase of slaves grsdu-
sll5 diminished by deportation of such
large numbers yearly. and slaves were
then sold st extravsgant prices. The
w srrenton, ,(Va.,) Whig OF January
1857 was informed by the auctloneers
of RishmoEd, Dickinson Hill & Co.,
that the gross amount of their sales of
men, women and children in 1853
reached 100000. Girls not ten Years
OF age brought $500"
The domestic slave trade was the
great trade OF this part Of our country.
During the two years lS5l-52, there
were shipped from the single port OF
Baltimore, Maryland, 1888 slaves for
Southern market, as appeared from the
report of the custom house officer.
This was only one port, and only one
mode Of exporting slaves. Multitudes
were sent overland.
Pen and ink are powerless to give
anything like true picture of this
abominable traffic in flesh and blood.
Family ties were rent in twain. The
victims OF this system lived in perpet-
ual fear of being sold TO the soul
driver" Especially was this true in
the slave breeding states. The fear of
being sold haunted the slave by day
and by night from the cradle so the
grave.
LIKE sHKBP FOR TaR SLAUGHTER.
He knew that he was reared for it like
! sheep for the slaughter and 80 suspense
brooded over ell that was dear to him
and cast its awful gloom over the fu-
ture for he stood in momentary dread
| of being torn from his family, or hav-
| ing his family torn from him.
The Investigating Committee of the
Anti-Slavery Society in their report OF
lS4l said: Another consequence OF
this sy stem is the prevalence of licen-
ciousness. This is indeed one OF the
foul features of slavery everywhere
but it is especially prevalent and indis-
eriminate where slave breeding is CEN
ducted as q business.
The larger the slave increase the
greater she master'a gains, and especi-
ally since the mixed blood demands q
considerable higher price than the
pure black"
While these scenes were being en-.
acted the foreign slave traffic, although
illegal, was being prosecuted with Wig
or as have shown in q former letter
All efforts to stop it were unavAiling.
President Buchanan greatly eacour
ed the traffic and during his admins
tration, slaves were landed In Georgi.
and Florida. Both northern and south
era men we're alike guilty in this in
famous work. A list appeared in the
New York Evening Post" of eighty
five vessels fitted oHt from New Yorl
from February, 1859 to July 1880, fol
the slave trade.
cratic paper, asserted that "an averag
Of two vessels each week clear out O
our harbor, bound for Africa and a hu
man cargo"
The World" stated that from &c, 90
to go 900 year were taken from Afri
ca to Cuba from the single port of New
York.
BOUGHT SLAVES BIZ THE wHoLRsALE
Senator Morgan should remembe
that the presence OF Negroes was 8
desirable before the civil war that
COMMITTEES OF the citizens of Mobile,
stated in 1887 that. $50 great was th
returns of slave labor that purchaser
by Alabama Of Negroes from othe
states amounted to about ten millio
dollars annually"
GAME ORIGIN As oURsRLyss."
Armistead. Ia well informed write
says: "The hapless victims OF the re
, voting system are men Of the sam
, origin ss ourselves-men endowe