As this subject may not be again alluded to here, I insert the following curious advertisement: it may give some insight respecting the public mind upon more subjects than one.
"MISSOURI
"To Southern and Western Planters
"For SALE; one hundred prime Virginia-born Slaves, the property of a Planter who is contracting the scale of his business, and does not chuse that all the produce of his land and labour should go into the pockets of manufacturers or fundholders. These Slaves will be sold all together or in families, to suit purchasers. Conditions, Cash, and Removal not South of the State of Georgia. The condition of their removal is for their own accommodation.
"N.B. No proposals from any Slave Trader will be attended to.
"The Proprietor of this property would prefer selling them all together, and would give a credit to any Planter, on receiving satisfactory [i.e. landed] security. No bank notes, bank stock, six per Cent, three per Cent, or other evidence of debt, public or private, domestic or foreign, will be received in payment; but coin or bullion will be taken at their lawful value or market price respectively.
"——British or Portuguese gold or Spanish milled dollars would be preferred.
[196] "If the above-mentioned Slaves are not disposed of at private sale before the first Monday of November next, they will be sold at public auction on that day, at Lynchburg in Virginia.[69]
"These Slaves were bred on the estate where they are now working, and are perfectly acquainted with the cultivation and curing of the best Virginia Tobacco.
"Their ancestors were purchased by the ancestor of the present proprietor out of Guineamen, and they have been in the same family for several generations.