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The Domestic Slave Trade

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
December
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-Il haaMjzzled many an honest farmer to see the noral difference between ihe fureign and iomestic slave tradc. Oui government ïaa found it convenient to mnke a diflerMice, but government seldom see moral iistinctions, and as for our nation, it Knows more nbout the distinctions of colar than of right and wrong. In sober Lrulh we supposc a man as much deservea hanging for buying a man in Virginia as fur buying him in África. And as for the domestic tradt, white men and ivomen mightas rigíiteously be made ar licles of merchandize as the blacks. - -