The Slave Trade
Lnst Tliursilny forenoon, at eleven o'clock, a colilft of slavcs, to tho number of eigbty-fiie, wni n)arched frow ïliis city') icros.s the Long Biirïge over the Polonaac, for the Suuth. Tliey cortsisted of men,women aniichildren ; tho men chained together ; so me of ihe women óarr.yiág ohildren walking wüh them ; - otlier women a lid ohildren riding o iwo wagons wliioli accompnnied il, e train. Some were weeping . ; many were rag-: ged ; noai'lv all were barefoot ; one was' prlaying a liddle - a not unfrequent ! companiment of su.:h scènes ! The coille we presume was ohiciv ma-ie op of slaves purclnsed froin t!ie snrrounding country in Maryland, which seems as if emptying iis slaves wholegale into the " far souih." It s but two weeks sirtce we had occasion to notico the departure of another coille of one hundred slaves by the same ron' e ! Tliennnexation of Texas with slaverw
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