The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-22

! protected him. There were. too. in the
city many anti-slavery people. WIKI
seemed more at Iibery in denouncing anC
/ opposing slavery than the people are
here. These would have sustained him,
as he knew them wcH. remember hear
/ ing AIr. Benton say, in a speech on tn
{ front steps of the court house. that I'M
Skilled slave labor would soon exhaust
/ the best lands in continuous crops of to-
! bacco, hemp and corn and that. while ne
/ believed the slave system should be grad
uauy changed TO free labor. NE further
/ believed that Missouri would never have
the prosperity under slave labor which
its abundant resources and fertile lands
/ invited, and that n state with its means
of living and navigation could not be sur
passed when it was opened TO free labor
and its slave system abolished. as It
should be
we saw slave sales almost every
week They We're so common that our
senses became hunted: and it was only
when some unusual distress was occa-
stoned by separation Of family or friends
that there was much said Of them All
those made by the sheriff were made on
the east front portico. or steps. of The
court house. Negroes belonging to estates
were usually sold there. This was the
most respectable auction block in tho
city if any man-market could be so; At
least IL Was SO held To be- But even
there the men. women and children were
examined. stripped and undressed. as re-
quested. and compared in a more aban-
doned and coarser way. and iibcd over
by more Nulsar tongues than animals in
the stock pens
Several times We saw heart-rending
separations. One was negro woman TO
Louisiana planter who would not buy
her nursing child. less than years old.
Families We're divided. sold and seoa-
rated SO often that the cries and Iamen-
tations of some such wretched scene were
constantly I'm our minds. Brownies work
took him about the court house almost
every day. or we would rot have seen
SO much of the distress OF slave
selling ana separating. He denounced
the whole system cnenlv many times. but
seeing it was useless. and perhaps an
eering those who were in the bastard
work II moro cruel conduct. be gave it
up I was with him much OF tie time ro-
months and years in his arrauGs. work
ahout the court house ard other parts af
the city. and saw an there vas of the
Nileness or slaVe-sell.ns. separations ana
the slave deus and auction blocks. when
boy from 10 a. 3 years or age The or
fcers protected Browne severed times. rs
l remember. when he angered the buyers
and traders who were So roughly ana
brutaliy handling the poor. scared aua
terrified women acd children that were
~ The way to sate they dreaded more
thaa death
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