Let us take our last look of the Divine missionary institution. Thus writes James H. Whiteside to Z. B. Oakes:—
"I know of five very likely young negroes for sale. They are held at high prices, but I know the owner is compelled to sell next week, and they maybe bought low enough so as to pay. Four of the negroes are young men, about twenty years old, and the other a very likely young woman about twenty-two. I have never stripped them, but they seem to be all right."
C. A. Merrill writes from Franklin:—
"If I can I will come and buy some of your fancy girls and other negroes, if I can get them at a discount."
A. J. McElveen writes from Sumterville:—
"I send a woman, age twenty-two. She leaves two children, and her owner will not let her have them. She will run away. I pay for her in notes, $650. She is a house woman, handy with the needle, in fact she does nothing but sew and knit, and attend to house business."
Another letter from the same:—
"I met a man who offered me four negroes,—one woman and three girls, all likely and fine size for the ages,—thirty-six, thirteen, twelve, and nine. The two oldest girls are the same size; all right as to teeth and person."
I cannot transfer to these pages what follows; decency forbids.
Thomas Otey writes from Richmond:—