126 NEGROES IN LOUISIANA. [CHAP. XXIX. 



southerners should not be aware how much a foreigner is shocked 

 at this public mode of treating a large part of the population as 

 mere chattels. 



The following is an advertisement copied verbatim from a 

 Natchez paper : 



&quot;NINETY NEGROES FOR SALE. 



&quot;I have about ninety negroes, just arrived from Richmond, 

 Virginia, consisting of field hands, house servants, carriage drivers, 

 two seamstresses, several very fine cooks (females), and one very 

 fine neat cook (male), one blacksmith, one carpenter, and some 

 excellent mules and excellent wagons arid harness, and one very 

 fine riding horse all of which I will sell at the most reasonable 

 prices. I have made arrangements in Richmond, Va., to have 

 regular shipments every month, and intend to keep a good stock 

 on hand of every description of servants during the season. 



&quot; JOHN D. JAMES. 



&quot;Natchez, October 16-tf.&quot; 



In a St. Louis paper, I read, in the narrative of a steamboat 

 collision, the following passage : &quot; We learn that the passengers, 

 with few exceptions, lost all their effects ; one gentleman in 

 particular lost nine negroes (who were on deck) arid fourteen 

 horses.&quot; 



Among the laws recently enacted in Louisiana, I was glad to 

 see one to prevent persons of color exiled from other states, or 

 transported for some offense, from becoming citizens. In spite of 

 such statutes, the negro-exporting portions of the Union will al 

 ways make the newer states play in some degree the part of penal 

 settlements. 



Free blacks are allowed to be witnesses in the courts here, in 

 cases where white men are concerned, a privilege they do not en 

 joy in some free states, as in Indiana ; but they do not allow 

 free blacks to come and settle here, and say they have been com 

 pelled to adopt this precaution by the abolitionists. 



An intelligent Louisianian said to me, Were we to emanci 

 pate our negroes as suddenly as your government did the West 



