YEARS OLD, and the Sheriff proceeds to give no- | Illinois, who spent some time in slave states, tice that if no one claims him the boy will be sold as a slave to pay jail fecs.

From the "Georgia Journal," Nov. 7. months old, belonging to the estate of William "TO BE SOLD-One negro girl about 18 Chambers, dec'd. Sold for the purpose of distriJETHRO DEAN, SAMUEL BEALL, Ex'ors."

The following is from the "Columbian (Ga.) | bution!! Enquirer," March 8, 1838.

From the "Natchez Courier," April 2, 1838. signed pursuant to a certain Deed of Trust will "NOTICE-Is hereby given that the underto sale at the Court House, to the highest bidder on Thursday the 12th day of April next, expose for cash, the following Negro slaves, to wit; years; Amanda, aged about 3 months; Wilson, Fanny, aged about 28 years; Mary, aged about 7 aged about 9 months.

"Said slaves, to be sold for the satisfaction of the debt secured in said Deed of Trust.

estate of William Chambers dec'd. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate.

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the following just comment on the barbarity of the above paragraph:

"Would any one, in reading this paragraph from an evening paper, conjecture that these eight

From the "Alexandria (D. C.) Gazette" Dec. rubbers and riders,' that together with a horse,

"I will give the highest cash price for likely negroes, from 10 to 25 years of age. GEO. KEPHART."

From the "Southern Whig," March 2, 1838.— WILL be sold in La Grange, Troup county, one negro girl, by the name of Charity, aged about 10 or 12 years; as the property of Littleton L. Burk, to satisfy a mortgage fi. fa. from Troup Inferior Court, in favor of Daniel S. Robertson vs. said Burk."

Petersburgh (Va.) Constellation,"

From the 66 March 18, 1837.

are merely mentioned as a 'loss' to their owner, were human beings-immortal as the writer who thus brutalizes them, and perhaps cherishing life as much? In this view, perhaps, the eight lost as much as Colonel Oliver."

The following is from the "Charleston (S. C.) Patriot," Oct. 18.

"Loss of Property!-Since I have been here, (Rice Hope, N. Santee,) I have seen much misery, and much of human suffering. The loss of PROPERTY has been immense, not only on South Santee, but also on this river. Mr. Shoolbred has lost, (according to the statement of the physician,) forty-six negroes-the majority lost being the primest hands he had-bricklayers, carpen

zyck has lost 35 negroes. Col. Thomas Pinkney, in the neighborhood of 40, and many other planters, 10 to 20 on each plantation. Mrs. Elias Harry, adjoining the plantation of Mr. Lucas, has lost up to date, 32 negroes-the best part of her primest negroes on her plantation."

From the "Natchez (Miss.) Daily Free Trader,"
Feb. 12, 1838.

"Found.-A NEGRO'S HEAD WAS PICKED UP ON
WHICH THE OWNER
THE RAIL-ROAD YESTERDAY,
CAN HAVE BY CALLING AT THIS OFFICE AND PAYING
FOR THE ADVERTISEMENT."

"50 Negroes wanted immediately. The subscriber will give a good market price for fifty like-ters, blacksmiths and Coopers. Mr. Wm. Ma. ly negroes, from 10 to 30 years of age. HENRY DAVIS." The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman, a native and still a resident of one of the slave states, and still a slaveholder. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, his letter is now before us, and his name is with the Executive Committee of the Am. Anti-slavery Society. "Permit me to say, that around this very place where I reside, slaves are brought almost constantly, and sold to Miss. and Orleans; that it is usual to part familics forever by such sales -the parents from the children and the children from the parents, of every size and age. mother was taken not long since, in this town, from a sucking child, and sold to the lower country. Three young men I saw some time ago taken from this place in chains--while the mother of one of them, old and decrepid, followed with tears and prayers her son, 18 or 20 miles, and bid him a final farewell! O, thou Great Eternal, is this justice! is this equity!!-Equal Rights!!"

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We subjoin a few miscellaneous facts illustrating the INHUMANITY of slaveholding 'public opinion.'

The shocking indifference manifested at the death of slaves as human beings, contrasted with the grief at their loss as property, is a true index to the public opinion of slaveholders.

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Colonel Oliver of Louisville, lost a valuable race-horse by the explosion of the steamer Oronoko, a few months since in the Mississippi river. Eight human beings whom he held as slaves were also killed by the explosion. They were the-riders and grooms of his race-horses. Louisville paper thus speaks of the occurrence: "Colonel Oliver suffered severely by the explosion of the Oronoko. He lost eight of his rubbers and riders, and his horse, Joe Kearney, which he had sold the night before for $3,000." Mr. King, of the New York American, makes

The way in which slaveholding 'public opinion' protects a poor female lunatic is illustrated in the following advertisement in the "Fayette ville (N. C.) Observer," June 27, 1838:

"Taken and committed to jail, a negro girl named Nancy, who is supposed to belong to Spencer P. Wright, of the State of Georgia. She is about 30 years of age, and is a LUNATIC. The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges, and take her away,

or SHE WILL BE SOLD TO PAY HER JAIL FEES.

FRED'K HOME, Jailor."

A late PROSPECTUS of the South Carolina Me. dical College, located in Charleston, contains the following passage:—

"Some advantages of a peculiar character are connected with this Institution, which it may be proper to point out. No place in the United States offers as great opportunities for the acquisition of anatomical knowledge, SUBJECTS BEING OBTAINED FROM Among the colorED POPULATION IN SUFFICIENT NUMBER FOR EVERY purpose, and proPER DISSECTIONS CARRIED ON WITHOUT OFFENDING

ANY INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY!!"

Without offending any individuals in the community! More than half the population of Charleston, we believe, is colored;' their graves may be ravaged, their dead may be dug up, dragged into the dissecting room, exposed to the gaze, heartless gibes, and experimenting knives, of a crowd of inexperienced operators, who are given to

understand in the prospectus, that, if they do not acquire manual dexterity in dissection, it will be wholly their own fault, in neglecting to improve the unrivalled advantages afforded by the institution since each can have as many human bodies as he pleases to experiment upon-and as to the fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, and sisters, of those whom they cut to pieces from day to day, why, they are not individuals in the community,' but property,' and however their feelings may be tortured, the public opinion' of slaveholders is entirely too chivalrous' to degrade itself by caring for them! The following which has been for some time a standing advertisement of the South Carolina Medical College, in the Charleston papers, is another index of the same 'public opinion' toward slaves. We give an extract :

cal cases,' always on hand, would prove a powerful attraction to students, and greatly increase the popularity of the institution. In brief, then, the motives of its founders, the professors, were these, the accommodation of their students-the accommodation of the public (which means, the whites)—and the accommodation of slaveholders who have on their hands disabled slaves, that would make interesting cases,' for surgical ope ration in the presence of the pupils-to these reasons we may add the accommodation of the Medical Institution and the accommodation of themselves! Not a syllable about the accommodation of the hopeless sufferers, writhing with the agony of those gun shot wounds, fractured sculls, broken limbs and ulcerated backs which constitute the interesting cases' for the professors to show off before their pupils, and, as practice makes Surgery of the Medical College of South Car-perfect, for the students themselves to try their olina, Queen st.-The Faculty inform their professional brethren, and the public, that they have hands at by way of experiment. established a Surgery, at the Old College, Queen street, FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEGROES, which will continue in operation, during the session of the College, say from first November, to the fifteenth of March ensuing.

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"The object of the Faculty, in opening this Sur. gery, is to collect as many interesting cases, as possible, for the benefit and instruction of their pupils at the same time, they indulge the hope, that it may not only prove an accommodation, but also a matter of economy to the public. They would respectfully call the attention of planters, living in the vicinity of the city, to this subject; particularly such as may have servants laboring under Surgical diseases. Such persons of color as may not be able to pay for Medical advice, will be attended to gratis, at stated hours, as often as may be necessary.

"The Faculty take this opportunity of soliciting the co-operation of such of their professional brethren, as arc favorable to their objects. "

Why, we ask, was this surgery established ⚫ for the treatment of negroes' alone? Why were these interesting cases' selected from that class exclusively? No man who knows the feeling of slave. holders towards slaves will be at a loss for the reason. 'Public opinion' would tolerate surgical experiments, operations, processes, performed upon them, which it would execrate if performed upon their master or other whites. As the great object in collecting the disabled negroes is to have interesting cases' for the students, the professors who perform the operations will of course endeavor to make them as ' interesting' as possible. The instruction of the student is the immediate object, and if the professors can accomplish it best by protracting the operation, pausing to explain the different processes, &c. the subject is only a negro, and what is his protracted agony, that it should restrain the professor from making the case as interesting' as possible to the students by so using his knife as will give them the best knowledge of the parts, and the process, however it may pro tract or augment the pain of the subject. The end to be accomplished is the instruction of the student, operations upon the negroes are the means to the end; that tells the whole story-and he who knows the hearts of slaveholders and has com mon sense, however short the allowance, can find the way to his conclusions without a lantern.

"The first thing that strikes the reader of the advertisement is, that this Surgery is established exclusively for the treatment of negroes,' and if he knows little of the hearts of slaveholders to wards their slaves, he charitably supposes, that they feel the dint of pity,' for the poor sufferers and have founded this institution as a special charity for their relief. But the delusion vanishes as he reads on; the professors take special care that no such derogatory inference shall be drawn from their advertisement. They give us the three reasons which have induced them to By an advertisement of the same Medical Inopen this 'Surgery for the treatment of negroes.' stitution, dated November 12, 1838, and publish. The first and main one is, to collect as many ed in the Charleston papers, it appears that an ininteresting cases as possible for the benefit and firmary has been opened in connection with the instruction of their pupils'—another is, the hope college.' The professors manifest a great desire that it may prove an accommodation,'—and the that the masters of servants should send in their disthird, that it may be a matter of economy to abled slaves, and as an inducement to the furnishthe public. Another reason, doubtless, and a con- ing of such interesting cases say, all medical and trolling one, though the professors are silent about surgical aid will be offered without making them it, is that a large collection of interesting surgi- { liable to any professional charges. Disinterested

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"The SOLE OBJECT of the faculty in the establishment of such an institution being to promote the interest of Medical Education within their native State and City."

bounty, pity, sympathy, philanthropy! However | paralysis of heart, and death of sympathy, and difficult or numerous the surgical cases of slaves every feeling of common humanity for the slave, thus put into their hands by the masters, they which it reveals, is enough, of itself, to show that charge not a cent for their professional services. the tendency of the spirit of slaveholding is, to Their yearnings over human distress are so in. kill in the soul whatever it touches. It has no tense, that they beg the privilege of performing all eyes to see, nor ears to hear, nor mind to underoperations, and furnishing all the medical atten- stand, nor heart to feel for its victims as human tion needed, gratis, feeling that the relief of beings. To show that the above indication of misery is its own reward!!! But we have put the savage state is not an index of individual down our exclamation points too soon-upon read- fecling, but of 'public opinion,' it is sufficient to ing the whole of the advertisement we find the say, that it appears to be a standing advertiseprofessors conclude it with the following para- ment in the Charleston Mercury, the leading pograph:litical paper of South Carolina, the organ of the Honorables John C. Calhoun, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Hugh S. Legare, and others regarded as the elite of her statesmen and literati. Besides, candidates for popular favor, like the doctor who advertises for the fifty incurables,' take special care to conciliate, rather than outrage, 'public opinion.' Is the doctor so ignorant of 'public opinion' in his own city, that he has unwittingly committed violence upon it in his advertisement? We trow not. The same public opinion' which gave birth to the advertisement of doctor Stillman, and to those of the professors in both the medical institutions, founded the Charleston Work House'-a soft name for a Moloch temple dedicated to torture, and reeking with blood, in the midst of the city; to which masters and mistresses send their slaves of both sexes to be stripped, tied up, and cut with the lash till the blood and mangled flesh flow to their feet, or to be beaten and bruised with the terrible paddle, or forced to climb the tread-mill till nature sinks, or to experience other nameless torments.

In the "Charleston (South Carolina) Mercury" of October 12, 1838, we find an advertisement of half a column, by a Dr. T. Stillman, setting forth the merits of another Medical Infirmary,' under his own special supervision, at No. 110 Church street, Charleston. The doctor, after inveighing loudly against men totally ignorant of medical science,' who flood the country with quack nostrums backed up by fabricated proofs of miraculous cures,' proceeds to enumerate the diseases to which his Infirmary' is open, and to which his practice will be mainly confined. Appreciating the importance of interesting cases,' as a stock in trade, on which to commence his experiments, he copies the example of the medical professors, and advertises for them. But, either from a keener sense of justice, or more generosity, or greater confidence in his skill, or for some other reason, he proposes to buy up an assort. ment of damaged negroes, given over, as incurable, by others, and to make such his interesting cases,' instead of experimenting on those who are the 'property' of others.

Dr. Stillman closes his advertisement with the following notice :

"TO PLANTERS AND OTHERS.-Wanted fifty negroes. Any person having sick negroes, considered incurable by their respective physicians, and wishing to dispose of them, Dr. S. will pay cash for negroes affected with scrofula or king's evil, confirmed hypocondriasm, apoplexy, diseases of the liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach and intestines, bladder and its appendages, diarrhea, dysentery, &c. The highest cash price will be paid on application as above."

The "Vicksburg (Miss.) Register," Dec. 27, 1838, contains the following item of information:

"ARDOR IN BETTING.-Two gentlemen, at a tavern, having summoned the waiter, the poor fellow had scarcely entered, when he fell down in a fit of apoplexy. He's dead! exclaimed one. He'll come to replied the other. 'Dead, for five hundred !' Done" retorted the second. The noise of the fall, and the confusion which followed, brought up the landlord, who called out to fetch a doctor. No! no! we must have no interference-there's a bet depending" But, sir, I shall lose a valuable servant! Never mind! you can put him down in the bill!”

About the time the Vicksburg paper containing the above came to hand, we received a letter from N. P. ROGERS, Esq. of Concord, N. H. the editor of the Herald of Freedom,' from which the following is an extract:

The absolute barbarism of a 'public opinion' which not only tolerates, but produces such advertisements as this, was outdone by nothing "Some thirty years ago, I think it was, Col. in the dark ages. If the reader has a heart Thatcher, of Maine, a lawyer, was in Virginia, of flosh, he can feel it without help, and if he on business, and was there invited to dine at a public house, with a company of the gentry of has not, comment will not create it. The total the south. The place I forget the fact was told indifference of slaveholders to such a cold blood-me by George Kimball, Esq. now of Alton, Illied proposition, their utter unconsciousness of the nois, who had the story from Col. Thatcher him

act of disobedience, on the part, I think, of the same slave, when employed in stacking straw, felled her to the earth with the handle of a pitch fork. All these transactions were related with the utmost composure, in a bar-room within thirty miles of the Pennsylvania line."

The two following advertisements are illustrations of the regard paid to the marriage relations by slaveholding judges, governors, senators in Congress, and mayors of cities.

self. Among the servants waiting was a young | less upon the floor. The same person, for some negro man, whose beautiful person, obliging and assiduous temper, and his activity and grace in serving, made him a favorite with the company. The dinner lasted into the evening, and the wine passed freely about the table. At length, one of the gentlemen, who was pretty highly excited with wine, became unfortunately incensed, either at some trip of the young slave, in waiting, or at some other cause happening when the slave was within his reach. He seized the long-necked wine bottle, and struck the young man suddenly in the temple, and felled him dead upon the floor. The fall arrested, for a moment, the festivities of the table. Devilish unlucky,' exclaimed one. The gentleman is very unfortunate,' cried another. Really a loss,' said a third, &c. &c. The body was dragged from the dining hall, and the feast went on; and at the close, one of the gentlemen, and the very one, I believe, whose hand had done the homicide, shouted, in bacchanalian bravery, and southern generosity, amid the broken glasses and fragments of chairs, LANDLORD! PUT THE NIGGER INTO THE BILL!

This was that murdered young man's requiem and funeral service."

Mr. GEORGE A. AVERY, a merchant in Rochester, New York, and an elder in the Fourth Pres. byterian Church in that city, who resided four years in Virginia, gives the following testimony:

"I knew a young man who had been out hunting, and returning with some of his friends, seeing a negro man in the road, at a little distance, deliberately drew up his rifle, and shot him dead. This was done without the slightest provocation, or a word passing. This young man passed through the form of a trial, and, although it was not even pretended by his counsel that he was not guilty of the act, deliberately and wantonly perpetrated, he was acquitted. It was urged by his counsel, that he was a young man, (about 20 years of age,) had no malicious intention, his mother was a widow, &c. &c."

Mr. BENJAMIN CLENDENON, of Colerain, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a member of the Society of Friends, gives the following testimony: "Three years ago the coming month, I took a journey of about seventy-five miles from home, through the eastern shore of Maryland, and a small part of Delaware. Calling one day, near noon, at Georgetown Cross-Roads, I found myself surrounded in the tavern by slaveholders. Among other subjects of conversation, their hu

man cattle came in for a share. One of the com. pany, a middle-aged man, then living with a second wife, acknowledged, that after the death of his first wife, he lived in a state of concubinage with a female slave; but when the time drew near for the taking of a second wife, he found it expedient to remove the slave from the premises. The same person gave an account of a female slave he formerly held, who had a propensity for some one pursuit, I think the attendance of re. ligious meetings. On a certain occasion, she presented her petition to him, asking for this indulgence; he refused-she importuned-and he, with sovereign indignation, seized a chair, and with a blow upon the head, knocked her sense

From the "Montgomery, (Ala.) Advertiser," Sept. 29, 1837.

“$20 REWARD.—Ranaway from the subscriber, a negro man named Moses. He is of common size, about 28 years old. He formerly belonged to Judge Benson, of Montgomery, and it is said, has a wife in that county.

is

JOHN GAYLE."

The John Gayle who signs this advertisement, an Ex-Governor of Alabama.

From the "Charleston Courier," Nov. 28.

months since, his negro man Paulladore. His Ranaway from the subscriber, about twelve complexion is dark-about 50 years old. I un. derstand Gen. R. Y. Hayne has purchased his wife and children from H. L. Pinckney, Esq. and has them now on his plantation, at Goose Creek, where, no doubt, the fellow is frequently lurking.

THOMAS DAVIS."

It is hardly necessary to say, that the GENERAL R. Y. HAYNE, and H. L. PINCKNEY, Esq. named in the advertisement, are Ex-Governor Hayne, formerly U. S. Senator from South Carolina, and Hon. Henry L. Pinckney, late member of Congress from Charleston District, and now Intendant (Mayor) of that city.

It is no difficult matter to get at the 'public opinion' of a community, when ladies of property and standing' publish, under their own names, such advertisements as the following.

Mrs. ELIZABETH L. CARTER, of Groveton, Prince William county, Virginia, thus advertises her negro man Moses:

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Ranaway from the subscriber, a negro man named Moses, aged about 40 years, about six feet high, well made, and possessing a good address, and HAS LOST A PART OF ONE OF HIS EARS."

Mrs. B. NEWMAN, of the same place, and in the same paper, advertises—

"Penny, the wife of Moses, aged about 30 years, brown complexion, tall and likely, no particular marks of person recollected."

Both of the above advertisements appear in the National Intelligencer, (Washington city,) June 10, 1837.

In the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser, of Feb. 13, 1838, is an advertisement signed SARAH WALSH, of which the following is an extract:

"Twenty-five dollars reward will be paid to any one who may apprehend and deliver to me, or confine in any jail, so that I can get him, my man Isaac, who ranaway sometime in September