UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

142 KEY TO UNCLE TOM S CABIN.
Messrs. B. M. " W. L. Campbell, in the the subject Ọn one pointhe oughtto be
respectable old stand of Slatter, advertiseas spokento. He has not advertised that he
follows:
does not separatefamilies. It is a mere
matter of SLAVES AVANTED.
taste,to be sure ; but then some
well-disposed peoplelike to see it on a
We are at all times purchasing Slaves,paying
the highest
cash prices. Persons wishingto sell
trader'scard,thinking it has a more creditable
will please call at 242 Pratt St. (Slatter's old appearance ; and,probably, Mr. Harker,
stand). Communications attended to.
ifhe reflects a little, will put it in next time.
B. M. " W. L. Campbell. It takes up very little room, and makes a
In another column,however,Mr. John goodappearance.
Denning has his season advertisement, in We are occasionally reminded,by the
terms which border on the'sublime :
advertisementsfor runaways, to how small
an extent itis found possible to avoid the
SOOO NEGROES WANTED.
separation of families ; as in the Riclunond
I will pay
the hijrhest prices, in cash, for 5000 Whig of Nov. 5, 1852 :
Negroes, with goodtitles, slaves for life or for a
terra of years,
in large or small families, or single
negroes.
I will also $10 REWARD.
purchaseNegroesrestricted
"We are requestedby HenryP. Davis to offera
to remain in the State,that sustain good characters.
Families never separated. Persons reward of $10 for the apprehensionof a negro
having
man named Henry, who ran
Slaves for sale will pleasecall and see me, as I
away from the said
am always in the market with the cash. Communications
Davis' faTm near Petersburg, on Thursday, the
promptly attended 27 th October. Said slave came from near
to, and liheral
Lynchburg,
commissions paid,by John N. ,Va., purchasedof Cock, and has a
Denning, No. 18
wife in Halifax county, Va. He has recently
S. Frederick street,between Baltimore and Second
been employedon the South Side Railroad. He
streets,Baltimore,Maryland.Trees in front of
the house.
may
be in the neighborhood of his wife.
Pulliam " Davis,Aucls.,Richmond.
Mr. John Denning,also,is a man of humanity.
It seems to strike the advertiseras possible
He never separates families. Don't that Henry may be in the neighborhood
you
see it in his advertisement? If a man
of his wife. We should not at all wonder
offershim a wife without her husband,Mr. if he were.
John Denning won't buy her. 0, no ! His The reader,by thistime,is in possession
five thousand are allunbroken families ; he of some of those statisticsof which the
never takes any other ; and he transportsSouth Carolinianspeaks, when he says,
them whole and entire. This is a comfort
to reflect upon, certainly.
We feel confident,if statisticscould be had, to
See, also,the Democrat, published in throw light upon the subject, we should find that
Cambridge,Maryland, Dec. there is less
8, 1852. A
separation of families among the
gentlemangives this negroes
pictorial representation
than occurs with almost any other class
of persons.
of himself,with the proclamation to the
slave-holdersof Dorchester and In order to givesome littlefurther idea
adjacent
counties that he is againin the market of the extent to which this kind of
:
property
is continually changinghands șee the following
NEGROES
WANTED.
calculation, which has been made
I wish to inform the slave-holders of from sixty-four Southern newspapers,
taken
Dorchester and the adjacentcounties that I
very
am again in the Market. Persons having
much at random. The papers
were all
negroes that are slaves for life to disposepublished
in the lasttwo weeks of the month
of will find it to their interest to see me before of November,1852.
theysell,as I am determined to pay the highest The negroes
are advertisedsometimes by
prices in cash that the Southern market will justify.
name,
I can be found at A. Hall's Hotel in Eas'ton,
sometimes in definite numbers, and
where I will remain until the first day of sometimes in "lots,""assortments,"
July
and
next. Communications addressed to me at Easton,
other indefinite terms. We present the
or information givento Wm. Bell in Cambridge, result of this estimate,far as it must fall
will meet with prompt attention. from a fair representation of the facts,in a
Wm. Harker.
tabular form.
Mr. Harker is very accommodating Ḥe Here is recorded, in only eleven papers,
keeps himself informed as to the state of the the sale of eighthundred forty-nine slaves
southern market,and will give the very in two weeks in Virginia ; the state where
highestprice that itwill justifyṂoreover, Mr. J. Thornton Randolphdescribes such
he will be on hand tillJuly, and will answer an event as a separation of familiesbeing a
any lettersfrom the adjoining country on thinsthat " we read of in no velssometimes."