UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

KEY TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. 149
" rob-
other of the abominasustain.
What, sir! have you lived for two hundred
1 tions and enormities of savage tribes. Does slavery
exist in
years without personal effort any part of civilized Europe productive
1 No,
industry,
extravagance and indolenceșustained sir,in no partof it."
alone by the return from the sales of the increase
of slaves,and retainingmerely such a The calculationsin the volume from which
lands can
tlemen 6tate the fact,which the historyand !plurality of wives,petty wars for plunder,
presentaspectof the commonwealth but too well |beryand murder, or
any
number as your now impoverished
sustain as stock ?"
Mr. Thomas JeffersonRandolph in the Virginia
1841. Since that time,the area of the
legislature used the southern slave-market has been doubled,and
followinglanguage{Liberty
Bell, p.
the trade has 20):
undergone a proportional 'increase.
"
I agree with gentlemen in the necessity of
Southern papers
are fullof its advertisem
armingthe state for internal defence. I will unite
It is,in factțhe
witli them in any effort to restore confidence to
great trade
the publicmind, and to conduce to the sense of of the country. From the singleport of
the safetyof our wives and our children. Yet, Baltimore, in the lasttwo years, a thousand
sir,I must ask upon
whom is to fall the burden
of this defence? Not upon the lordly masters of
their hundred slaves,who will never turn out except
to retire with their families when danger threatens.
No, sir ; it is to fall upon the lesswealthyclassof
officer :
our citizens, chiefly upon the non-slaveholder. I
have known patrolsturned out where there was not ABSTRACT OF THE NUMBER OF VESSELS CLEARED LN
a slave-holder among them ; and this isthe practice THE DISTRICT OF BALTIMORE FOR SOUTHERN PORTS,
of the country. I have sleptin times of alarm HAVING SLAVES ON BOARD, FROM JAN. 1, 1851, TO
quiet in bed, without having a thought of care, NOVEMBER 20, 1852.
while these individuals,owning none of this property
themselves, were patrolling under a compulsory
process, for a pittance seventy-five cents
per twelve hours,the very curtilage of my house,
and guarding that propertywhich was alike dangerous
to them and myself. After all țhis isbut
an expedientẠs this population more
numerous, it becomes less productive Ỵour
guard must be increased, until finally profits
will not pay for the expense of its subjection.
Slavery has the effectof lessening free population
of a country.
'"
The gentlemanhas spoken of the increase of
the female slaves being a part of the profit. It is
admitted ; but no great evil can be averted,no
good attained,without some inconvenience. It
may be questioned how far it is desirableto foster
and encourage this branch of profit Ịt is a practice,
and an increasing practice, in parts of Virginia,
to rear slaves for market. How can an
honorable mind, a patriot, and a lover of his
country, bear to see this Ancient Dominion,rendered
illustrious by the noble devotion and patriotism
of her sons in the cause of liberty, converted
grandmenagerie, where men are to
into one
reared for the market, like oxen for the shambles'!
Is itbetter,is it not worse, than the slave-trade
;"
that trade which enlisted the labor' of the good
and wise of every creed,and every clime,to
abolish it? The trader receives the slave,a
stranger in language, aspect and manners, from
the merchant who has broughthim from the interior
The ties of father,mother, husband and
child,have all been rent in twain ; before he receives
him, his soul has become callous. But
here,sir,individualswhom the master has known
from infancy, whom he has seen sporting
the
innocent gambols of childhood,who have been
accustomed to look to him for protection, he tears
from the mother's arms, and sells into a strange
country,among strange peopleșubjec to cruel jOct. 15
taskmasters.
"
He has attempted to justify slavery
here
it exists in Africa,and has stated that it
because
exists all o"er the world. Upon the same principle,
he could justifyMahometanism, with its
we have been quoting were made in the year
thirty-three
and
slaveshave been shipped to
the southern market, as is apparent from
the
of the custom-house
following report