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SLAVERY. 



seasons when many hundreds, if not thousands, 

 are driven down like cattle to New Orleans for 

 sale in the markets. In the more immediate 

 want of slaves, advertisements like the follow- 

 ing, which I copied from a Virginia Newspaper, 

 under date of July, 1825, are frequently to be 

 met with. 



" CASH FOR NEGROES." 



" A liberal price to be paid for a few likely 

 young Negroes, men and women," &c. &c. 



And one of the papers advertized for sale, 

 " An excellent servant, 26 years old, with, or 

 without a child, six months old. 19 



" What is man ? and what man seeing this, 

 And having human feeling, does not blush, 

 And hang his head, to think himself a man V 



It is in those changes, however, which are 

 now spreading over the globe, that we look for 

 an alteration in the brutalizing and cruel sys- 

 tem of slavery. A system, which England and 

 the United States never can perpetuate. The 

 tide of the world is happily in opposition to it ; 

 and the general wish of the people in Great 

 Britain and America will, no doubt, by a suc- 

 cession of steps, at length prevail. It is only by 

 monopoly, that the slave system can be main- 



