Year: 1864

The Slave Market Outd0ue-sA White
Man Selling His Own Sons.


Sumner and his followers may prate a:
/ loudly as they please about the barbarism


Of slavery and Mrs. Stowe may rack i'm
agination to create monster like the brutal
/ Legree, but we had an exhibition in this
/ town during the examination of those re-
Gently couscripted, which, for inhuman and


brutal barbarism, we defy any slave market
in the world to match. A. father, who had
already sold one minor son as a substitute


to tho iphumau shamble, where he fell a


victim, appeared in our town last Monday.
dragging at his heels two half-grown, ILL
shaped Boys.


They were all the sons he had, and he
had contracted to sell them both as snb-
stitutes.


They had been bargained for by loyal
men. The smaller one, almost q mere
child, was prospectively the property of
IOud-mOuthei and pestilent Abolitionist-
a huge beast of a man, who stood six feet
two in his stockings and weighed over two
hundred pounds. This intensely loyal and
patriotic fellow when his own son, a sturdy,
weil-grOwr young man, enlisted, followed
him to Cham bersburg, and brought him
back on the plea that he was a minor, and
had enlisted without his fathers consent.


Yet he IS always full of war, and eager for
fighting so long as it is at the expense Of the
blood OF some one else than himself or his
family. Being drafted, however, and wish
ing to lessen the probability of such a mis-
Tor tune Detailing him again speedily, and
i'm PEELED at the same time to save little
money, he had bargained with q brutal
father to pay less sum than three hundred
dollars TOR the body, the bones, the blood,
no. Lo al: ! /


whole South to furnish an instance of such
a disgusting 'd:cker' in human flesh, or from
among all the professional slave traders, VINO
have disgraced its soil. such Il pair of mon
steTs as these.


There was no voil of pretended loyalty or
stimulated patriotism to conceal the naked
hide0uSness of this Transaction. The father
was aCtuated sOloly by a sordid desire for
g5in;thc purchaser was moved by the sneak
ing ,yhite- -liVer5d cOwaTdice that forbade
him risking his own worthless carcass in
war, for the prosecution of which he howis
daily, and By the mean selfshuess of his
nature which prompted him to make
cheap bid when bartering for human vic
tim. 4 plot had been made up by the par
ties 20 this DISCUS ting transaction by which
they hoped to deceive the Board.


The boys were made to lie as to their
ages, anu GrJlSoCutG0 themselves as oder
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, thou gh
their father himself lied as to their ages, in
order that be might be enabled to effect
sale Of his offspring. They were both re-
iected for tn is reason, as entirely too young
for the service. The overgrown human
brute. who had expected to save him self in |
this way, sorcowiully and reluctantly paid |
over his money to save his cOwardly car
cass for a time, and the wretched father, !
after Ieeljng about cur streets for Jay or so
IN drunkenness, went home much disap. |
pointed, 30 doubt, in being banked in the |
sale Of his sons.


There is no coloring about this story, no
fictitious CLOSING. Il Is true, just as we te Il !
it, and known to be SO to the very letter by |
many who will make no comment. We |
have seen negroes sold on the block to the |
highest bidder, but that only involved a .
change of service. Here was a white man, I
with one son whom he had sold dead al
ready, endeaVoring to sell two more boys to
what was almost certain death He found
loyal Abolitionists ready and eager to be
come the purchasers OF cheap substitutss.-
Let Us near no more about the barbarism of
slavery, when the barbaiism of this war can
eNhibit such revolving speClaoles 10 the light
Of Heaven on the free soil of Pennsylvania.