The Impurity Of Slavery

Is seen, indeed, every time one glances at the eountenancesoftheslaves. 1 tooka family from Winchester, and sent them onto Canada, The father is the natural son of the wealthiest man in Maryland; the mother, still a beautiful woman, the daughter of a former inember of Congress frorn the same State. Their parents in one case, and sister in the other, sold them as merchandize! Tvvo of their sons, who had become legally entitled to their freedom, were sold to the slave traders after they had been declared free by the Couit of Virginia, pending an appeal to the Courts of Appeals. Two other sons escaped to Canada, some years ago. I have had the happiness of hearing that all the family, 8 in number, save the two who weresold, are now happily j united in Canada, within the sound of the glorious Cataract's roar. Shall 1 give y ou another sample? Just below Baltimore resides a wealthy planter, commonly called "Nigger Tom W ," from the notorious habifs of the man. I saw him once, at Anapolis. He is a stout, fat man, with a shrewd, but sensual face. - He has large families of children by four colored women, and other children by his own daughters. They number about 50 iiHffr. He allows no colored man on theplaee, Not many years since he shot a colored lover of one of the women, as the poor man was entering the window of her hut. Yet this brute bcast is a rich and" quite a "respectable" maní Some of my colored readers will readily recal his nameand history.Take another sample. One of themost infiuential citizens of Baltimore, isa'well known military man,. Col. S 1. By a colored woman he had two daughters; and subsequently had children by each of these daughters. Not long since, he sold the mother, daughters and grandchildren, all to the slave tradep Hope H, Slatter, for the southern market. ís the reader shocked at the enormity of such disclosures? Let him remember that these form a part,not the worst part, even of the every dat life of slavery, I say, it is not the worst part. The horrible corruption of thotight and feeling, the cheapening of human virtue, the contempt of human afíections and suíFe rings, the hard hearied cruelty to victims,evinced in their daily tramplingon their wishes, feelings and enjoyments; thare indícate a ctsrruption far more deep and deadly than the outward immoralities I have recited. -