FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Elliott on Slavery, p. 40.
[2] R. Walsh, Encyclopedia Americana, Art. Slavery.
[3] Here are a few advertisements taken from respectable southern papers, verbatim.
Slaves Wanted.—We are at all times purchasing Slaves, paying the highest cash prices. Persons wishing to sell will please call at 242 Pratt St. (Slatter’s old stand.) Communications attended to.
B. M. & W. L. Campbell.
A Negro for Sale.—I wish to sell a black girl about 24 years old, a good cook and washer, handy with a needle, can spin and weave. I wish to sell her in the neighborhood of Camden Point; if not sold there in a short time, I will hunt the best market; or I will trade her for two small ones, a boy and girl.
November 15, 1852
M. Doyal.
100 Negroes for Sale, at my depot on Commerce street, immediately between the Exchange Hotel and F. M. Gilmer, Jr.’s Warehouse, where I will be receiving constantly, large lots of Negroes during the season, and will sell on as accommodating terms as any house in this city. I would respectfully request my old customers, and friends to call and examine my stock.
Montgomery, November 2, 1852.
Jno. W. Lindsey.
Great sale of Negroes by J. & L. T. Levin.—On Thursday, December 30, at 11 o’clock, will be sold at the Court House in Columbia, one hundred valuable negroes.
It is seldom such an opportunity occurs as now offers. Among them are only four beyond 45 years old, and none above 50. There are twenty five prime young men, between sixteen and thirty; forty of the most likely young women, and as fine a set of children as can be shown!
Terms, &c.
December 18, 1852.
[4] Prof. B. B. Edwards says—“From the time of Augustus to Justinian we may allow three slaves to one free man; we shall thus have a free population in Italy of 6,944,000; and of slaves 20,832,000.”
On the treatment of Roman slaves Guizot remarks that “it would be easy to give the most frightful and heartrending accounts of the manner in which the ancient Romans treated their slaves. Entire volumes are occupied with the details.” (Hist. Civilization.)
[5] These facts are well authenticated. The “Union Point” tragedy did not occur in 1854, as reported recently, and denied by the “Free Trader,” but it did occur in 1842, and we have quoted the “Trader’s” own account.
[6] Accepting this celebrated curse as an inspired prophecy, and we are inclined to receive it as such, it finds an easy fulfillment in the conquests of Joshua over the Canaanites; in the oppression of the Phœnicians, (who were descendants of Canaan,) by the Chaldeans, Persians and Greeks; and finally in the subjugation and destruction of the Carthaginians, by the Romans. This is the opinion of President Edwards, and it is entitled to respect.
[7] I avail myself in what follows upon this point, of the investigations of Rev. E. Smith, who has thrown much light upon this subject. See “Bible Servitude” pp. 91, for a full discussion of this point.
[8] For these criticisms on the Hebrew word the author is indebted to Albert Barnes’ ‘Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery.’
[9] The passage in Ex. 21: 20, 21, applies, as all admit, mainly, if not exclusively, to native Hebrew servants, and as no one finds in the limited voluntary servitude of the native Hebrews a warrant for hereditary slavery, I have not thought it necessary to dwell upon it. It may be observed, however, that the word “punished,” is rendered in the marginal reading, “avenged;” and the meaning of the law is that the interest the master had in the life of the servant should be taken as presumptive evidence that he did not intend to kill him, unless the case was very clear, and hence that he should not be avenged summarily, by a relative of the servant, but be regularly tried and punished by the appointed authorities.
[10] See Barnes’ Inquiry.
[11] See Smith.
[12] Tract of the American Reform Book and Tract Society.
[13] Bible Servitude.
[14] These facts are drawn by Jay from Blair’s Inquiry into the state of slavery among the Romans.
[15] Note. One little circumstance, which occurred in the General Assembly of 1853, indicates a remarkably conservative spirit in that body. Dr. Judd, in writing the history of the division of the Old and New-Schools, put in one chapter on slavery. This chapter made the book offensive to the south. To reconcile all parties, it was agreed that two editions of the work be printed, one for northern, the other for southern circulation—the latter to be minus the chapter on slavery!
[16] The “American Missionary Association,” which has no fellowship with slaveholding, and the American Reform Book and Tract Society, which is doing much for the dissemination of Christian anti-slavery doctrines, are sustained mainly by Congregationalists. The main body of the Congregationalists, however, adhere to the old Boards.
[17] Can any one conceive of any virtuous reason which prompted the passage of such a rule? Is there not a deep and dark iniquity among slaveholders which makes it not only necessary that slaves should be excluded from civil, but also from ecclesiastical tribunals?
[18] Amongst these, and at the head of them stands Mr. Hosmer, Editor of the Northern C. Advocate, author of “Slavery and the Church,” and a number of other excellent books.
[19] See Methodist Discipline.
[20] Annual Report of American and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
[21] Distinguished from the Moravians, or old United Brethren by the additional phrase—“in Christ.”
[22] Methodist Quarterly.
[23] Hon. Charles Sumner’s speech on the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, delivered in the Senate, August 1852, is one of the finest specimens of eloquence in the English language. Its arguments too, are unanswerable.
[24] The following estimate of their numbers and localities is taken from one of the able reports of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, carefully drawn up by its former Secretary, John Scoble, Esq.:
| United States, | 3,650,000 |
| Brazil, | 4,050,000 |
| Spanish Colonies, | 1,470,000 |
| S. Amer. Republics, | 1,130,000 |
| British Colonies, | 750,000 |
| Hayti, | 850,000 |
| French Colonies, | 270,000 |
| Dutch Colonies, | 50,000 |
| Danish Colonies, | 45,000 |
| Mexico, | 70,000 |
| Canada, | 35,000 |
| Total, | 12,370,000 |
Rep. Am. and For. Anti. Slav. Society.
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