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Newspaper Page TextTHE o®3TVlinfi2B&’ VBIQftIJSSg Will bepublished every SATURDAY Afternoon, In the Tico-Story Wooden Building , at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IS THE CITE OF MACON, 6A. Ity wn. B. HARRISON TERM S.: For the Paper, in advance, per annum, s2l if not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. dj* Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates —and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly. CF Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. O’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on tho first Tuesday in the month, between thehours of ten o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Males must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. jjr’Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month,between the legal hoursofsale.beforethe Court House of thecounty where the LettersTestamentary,or Administration nr Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor Sixty Dai,s, in one of the public gazettes ofthis State,and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. LJ"Notice for the sale of Personal Property must oe given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. (X3*Notice to the Debtors and Creditors o', an es tate must be published for Forty Days. rpyNotice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazetteinthe State for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. jJ’Citations for Letters of Administration on an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published Thirty Days - for Letters of Dismis sion from the administration ofan Estate,monthly pi- Six Moaths —for Dismission from Guardian- s hip Forty Days. jeßules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be puolished monthly for Four Months — for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of 7 hret Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attentionat the SOUTHERN TRIBUNE Olfiee, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law 'j’AII Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. IT. OTJSLET & SCIT, WARE HOUSE V COMMISSIONME R CHANTS .a-’ILL continue Business at their “ Fire »? Proof Btiil«lii»|rs,” on Cotton jtvenue, Macon, Ga. Thankful for past favors, they beg leave to say thev will be constantly at their post, and that no efforts shall be spared to advance the interest of their patrons. They respectfully ask all who have COTTO.\ or other PRODUCE to Store, to call arid exam ine the safety of their Buildings, before placing it elsewhere. py*Customary Advances on Cotton in Store or Shipped, and al i Business transuded at the usual rates. juiin 2 27 ly DAVID REID, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, MAC ON, GA. /COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, Ac., for the \j States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn ylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New jersey, Maine, &e. Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds and Mortgages drawn, and all documents and instruments of writing prepared and authentica ted for use and record, in any oflhe above States. Residence on Walnut Street, near the African Church. O’Public Office adjoining Dr.M.S.Thomson's Botanic Store, opposite the Floyd House, june 29 25 ly WOT. S. LAWTON A CO. Factors und Commission Merchants , Macon , oa. Ur ILL make advances on shipments of Cotton to LAWTON & DOWELL. Savannah, Ga. ; and LAW ION, DOW LLL & CO., Charleston, S. C. july 20 28—ts WILLIAM WILSON, HOUSE CARP ESTER AMD CONTRACTOR, Cherry Street near Third , Macon, Ga. MAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds and Sashes for sale. Thankful for past favors he hopes for further patronage. may 25 20—6nt WOOD A LOW, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NEW ORLEANS, LA. may 25 20— ] y Icc Cream Saloon, Cotton Acenue, next door below Ross Co's. OPEN from 10 o’clock, A. M. to 10 P. RL, daily, Sundays excepted The Ladies' Slaoon detached and fitted up for their comfort, in a neat and pleasant style, june 22 H. C. FREEMAN. HALL & BRANTLEY, HAVE just, received a well selected assort ment cj(DRY GOODSand GROCERIES, which embraces almost every article in their line of business. These Goods make their stock extensive, which has been selected recently by one of the firm, and they are determined to sell their Goods upon reasonable terms, and at the lowest prices. Whilst they are thankful for past favors, they respectfully invite their friends and the public to call at their on Cherry Street, and examine their Goods and prices, before pur chasing elsewhere. march 23 11 Macon Candy Manufactory. fPHE Subscriber still continues to marufac -1 ture CANDY of every variety, next door below Ross & Co's, on Cotton Avenue. Hav ing increased my facilities and obtained addi. tional Tools, I am now prepared to put up to order, CAN DIES, of any variety, and war ranted equal to any manufactured in the South. I also manufacture a superior arlicleofLemon and other SYRUPS , CORDIALS.\PREBERVES,bc VII nv articles ire we'l packed delivered at 'tv point in the fi ' am! warranted to giv. s iti-'fi tint. T 1 C F EF..M AN, Vent m lire It t) “ 9 THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES— VOLUME 11. 3$ o r t r s. [tor the southern tribune.] STARLIGHT. We have watched the smile of the sunset skies, As calmly it melted into night’s dark eyes, And dreamed that the angels would soon awake, In each silver isle in the sky’s blue lake, Where their woofy bowers are fragrant made, With the incense that steals from the sun-bathed glade, And all the day long in this starry home, They rest ’til the twilight bids them roam, Then each unseen gate is opened wide, And a star we see in its twinkling pride, And many a loved one cometii to cheer, The heart that is breaking with sorrow and fear, And we sleep in peace for an angel stands, With its smile in our dreams and our soul in its hands ! SAMIVEL. Savannah. From De Bow's Commercial Review. The Origin, Progress and Pros pects of Slavery. * * * The first attempt to introduce negro slaves within the United States,was in 1645, by a citizen of Boston, and it was not until 1670 that the first cargo of Afri can slaves were brought to Virginia, by a Dutch vessel, and sold. The increase in that colony wasatfirst very slow. In 1671, Sir John Yeamans introduced slaves into South Carolina, from Barbadoes, almost coeval with the establishment of the colo ny. The increase in this class, by propa gation and imigration, was very rapid, doubling, before long, the number of whites. Maryland, also, in 1671, passed a law for "encouraging the introduction of negroes and slaves.” From this period, the introduction of slavery became general in all the Ameri | can colonies, increasing by natural means i and by the slave trade, so long as that was permitted, and since, by the ordinaty aug mentation of population. At the period of the first census of the United States, in 1790, we find that slave ry existed in ail the States and western Territories, except Massachusetts and Maine, which were at that period united. In Massachusetts, however, exist various laws In legal ll lu In 1G01.t1.0 general court decreed "there shall never he any bond slavery, &c.,among us, unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, o> such «v willingly sell themselves, or are sold to us Sfc,, provided this exempt none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by au thority In 1703, a duty of c £4 was laid upon every negro imported into Massachusetts.t The same year, we find a law of the gen eral court, rela'ing to mulatto and negro slaves , prohibiting their manumission, with out previous security that they should not afterward he at the charge of the colony, and all other manumission to be void.| — In 1735. the number of blacks were 2,000 ; whole population, about 50,000. In 1763,, the blacks were 5,000; whites, 240 000. What portion were slaves, we are unable to say, though it was judicially declared, after the Revolution in Massachusetts, that slavery was virtually abolished by the con stitution of the Slate.|| The census of 1790 showed 697,697 slaves in the United States, or nearly 17. I 76 per cent, of the whole population;; the free colored were 59,466, or 1| per cent; the free negro and slave population, together, being about one-fifth of the whole. In those States where slavery has been subsequently retained, the pro portion was of course largest, being about 35 per cent., or one-third. In South Caro lina, the proportion of slaves was most considerable of all, Being 43 per cent., or neatly one-balf; in Tennessee the propor tion was least, being 9.6 percent., or nno tenth. The proportion of free blacks was largest in Rhode Island, 3,407, or one twenty-third, and in Delaware, one-fif teenth. In Massachusetts and Pennsyl vania, they were one-seventy fifth, and in Maryland, one-fortieth of the whole pop ulation. Virginia had 170 per cent.; South Carolina, 07 per cent, of free blacks. The census of ISOO showed 893,041 slaves, and 105.395 free colored—being a proportion in the former of 16.83 per cent., and 2.05 per cent in the latter. Thus was exhibited a decline in the proportion of slaves to free whites of .73 or nearly 1 per ‘Ancient Cnartnrs and Laws of Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1814, p. 53. t<’i Ih-i non Massachusetts Historical Society, ini. iv I }An> :»•?'.* Cl,a Vn ..S . V c! , sat* Ray I ||Lcni, voi. 11, Com. Slavery . MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10, iB6O. cent., and an increase in the proportion of free negroes of .54, or 3 per cent. The proportion of whole coloied to whole white, had lost .39, or of 1 per cent.— The increase of slaves in ten years had 27.96 per cent., being 7 5 per cent, less than the increase of whites; the increase in free colored being 82.28, more than twice as great as that of the whites. The increase of whites was of course greatly affected by immigration, that of the free colored by emancipation. The slaves lost by emancipation and gained by a few im portations still from Africa, perhaps equal ly. Their increase may thus he consider ed a natural one. The colored population of the New England States increased in ten years hut 9 percent.; the same popu lation in the South increased 33J.* In all the slave States the proportion of slaves was 35 per cent., being a white gain ; the slaves, from being somewhat more than a third of the whole population, became somewhat less; South Crolina still con tinued to show the largest proportion of slaves, 42.3, showing at the same time a slight decline. Delaware showed the least 9.6 per cent. The free blacks of New England had increasad 33 percent., while the slaves there had lost 60 per cent. Now, either the black population of New England, or the slave portion of it, haj been sold to the south ward, or it exhibits the lomcst increase known to our popula tion ! f The census of 1810 indicated 1.191,364 slaves, and 186,446 free colored; an in crease in the slaves of 33.40 as against 27.96 in the previous ten years; of the whole colored, 37.58 against 32 23. To account for this enlarged increase, it must he remembered that Louisiana had been purchased with slaves and colored,and that Africans were continually imported up to ISOS. The increase of whites, owing to immigration, was 2j per cent, greater than that of slaves, and I3 less than that, of the free blacks. In this ten years, the whites gained very slightly upon the slaves and the whole colored population gained upon the whites. In the slave States the free colored gained 1 per cent. The s aves gained also, and. from a little less, had become a little more than one-third. The increase of the blacks in New Eng land, exceed 7 per cent, being a loss of 2 per cent. Their increase in slave States, was nerrly 35 percent—a gain of 1£ to 2 per cent. The proportion of slaves to whites is still highest in South Carolina, 47.3, having gained 5 per cent. Louisi anastands next,45.3; then come Mississip. pi, Georgia and Virginia. The census of IS2OJ showed 1,543.688 slaves, and 238,197 free colored, and in crease in the slaves of 29.57, being nearly 2 per cent, more than the increase of the ten yearsending ISOO. The whole color ored increase was 29.33 per cent, against 37.58; free colored, 27.75 against 72 pei cer.t. The white population gained 1 per cent, on colored, the same on slaves ; the free colored gained one-tenth of 1 per cent. The falling away of the increase of slaves was owing to many elopements of this class during the war, &c. In the slave States the free colored had remained stationary, and the slaves had gained near ly 1 per cent; the whole colored had gained on the whites 3 per cent., nearly. The increase of blacks in New England was still about 7 per cent.; at the South, 30 per cent. The proportion of blacks in South Carolina remains highest, 51.4, hav ing gained 4 per cent. In Louisiana, 45 per cent; Georgia and Mississippi, 43 per cent. The free blacks to whole popula tion, have declined in Louisiana, Missouri and Georgia, an average of near 2 per cen ~ hut increased in all the other slave States except Delaware ; in no instance, however, more than I3 per cent., and in some instances, a mere fraction. The census of 1830 included 2,009,043 slaves, and 319,599 free, an increase in the slaves of 30.75; being an augmented in crease of 1 per cent. —in the whole col ored 31.37; also an increased increase of 2 per cent.|| The white population gained slightly on the colored, and the colored on the slaves. The free colored in the slave States increased one-tenth of 1 per cent.; the slaves gained £per cent., and the whole colored had again gained on the whites.— The blacks have actually lost 16 in New 'Mississippi Territory excluded ♦Sec Tucker on the Population of the Initod Slates. 11820 i» compared with 1810, so as not to allow the raleiilatiom to be affected hv the purchase ! fL isiana. ;T:,e turns ■ t,cr -■ f’ 0 r two m n s, os | the census wus taken in a different month. Eugland, whereas at the South they have gained 527,533, or about one-third of the original number. The proportion of slaves I lias, in ten years, increased 3 per cent, in I South Carolina. In Mississippi, 5 per cent., and are 4S. 1 of the whole popula lion. In Louisiana they were 50.8, an in. i crease of 5 per cent. The free blacks in creased in Maryland, District of Colum biaand Delaware, 2 to 3 per cent; in Kentucky, 1 per cent. In other States, i trilling losses or gains* By the census of 1840, it appeared there were 2.457.350 slaves, and 386,348 tree colored persons in the United States, an increase inslaves, in ten years, 0f23.8l . of free colored, 20.88; a decline in the in. crease of this population of 13.97 and 6.94 per cent. Professor Tucker argues a very great error somewhere. Though free blacks have emigrated to British prov | inces, and slaves have been carried to Texas, the numbers were not sufficient to affect, in any degree, the result. The whites have hence gained largely upon the colot ed, supposing the returns correct, and the free colored have diminished in their ratio of increase. The latter have de clined, in proportion, in the slave States, as also have the slaves; the last, in extent, more than one-half per cent. The pro pot tion of slaves lias increased in South Carolina, and is largest. In Mississippi it is 52 per cent.; in Louisiana it appears to have lost two per ct., being now less than half. In the Southern States, the ftee blacks have ceased to increase, with the same ratio; the proportion in Louisianare mains largest, being 7 percent, of the whole population. Virginia comes next. The blacks of New England increased six per cent, in ten years; those of the slave States, twenty-six percent.! By this cen sus it appears that every State returned slaves except Maine, Vermont, Massachu setts and Michigan. By the last census, Massachusetts and Vermont only were ex cepted. We have thus traced the progress of slavery in the United States, from the first introduction of the institution down to the completion of the census of 1840. The decennial enumeration to be taken the piesent year, 1850, and hereafter, will show something like the following, suppos ing the ratio of an increase of slaves and free blacks to he preserved : Slaves. Free Blacks. Slavey-Free. 1350, 3,059,441 463,617 3,523,058 1860, 3,763,112 556,340 4,319,452 1870, 4,628,627 667,608 5,216,235 1880, 5,693,211 801,129 6,494,334 1890, 7,002,649 961,355 7,962,004 1900, 8,613,258 1,153,626 9,766,884 1910, 10,594,307 1,384,351 11,978,658 It is possible the free blacks may in crease in a greater, and slaves in a less ratio, without affecting tho sum total of in crease of the two classes. A diminution in the increase of slaves may result from frequent emancipation, from emigration from the c untry —hut this must he very inconsiderable, or from a lower degree of productiveness, the result of lower physic al comfort, diminished valuation and less industrial uses, etc. We see uo reason to allow much for the operation of these causes within the next half century, and may safely estimate ten millions of blacks and colored in the country at the close of it. It is also clear, from our investigations, that no State, or class of States, can he more responsible than another, for the in troduction and extension of the institution of slavery in the Union. The resultsshow, too, that, in a condition of freedom, the blacks of New England have been situa ted most unpvopition. iy. —i» their trifling increase of numbers—unless we suppose they have passed southward ( as general emancipation was expected, or took place in this quarter. Takuig the whole Union into account, whatever the merits or demerits of the institution of slavery, ours is but a small share of respon sibility for its continuance, and none fur its introduction. The history of slavery carries us back to the origin of society itself. It was found in the earliest advanced nations of antiquity. To attribute its derivation to war is absurd : for, admitting serous to be derived from the Latin sercare (to preserve a captive), slavery, we know, was old be fore Rome bad been founded. Perhaps the most curious and ridiculous position is that taken in the Encyclopedia Britanni ca, that it originated among the antedilu vian giants, whose name implied assault ers of others Nimrod, accoidir ;to he ‘Florida had been purchased. same authority, was one of its authors— since the Bible tells us he was a mighty hunter before the Lord ! To such stuff are authors driven in maintaining their fa vorite theories. The fact is, that, immediately after the deluge, we have a decree of God himself, condeuiuing the children of Ham to per petual servitude, using the very Hebrew word which translators render slave. Af ter a few generations, slavery is referred to as a well-established institution—for Abraham, the patriarch, had 318 slaves (Gen., xiv). The laws of God strictly regulated this relation, in all its aspects, and his own peculiar people were comman ded to buy slaves from the heathen, and not to steal them, and instructed how to treat them after they were bought, &c.* It is said that the heathen, taking advan tage of this mild slavery, tolerated by God established a much worse kind among them selves. However this may he, and it is not improbable, many of the Jews, also, abused the institution, as they did other laws ; we may well affirm that slavery pre sents no worse aspect in the civilized nations of the present day, than it did a mong the Hebrews. In Homer, one of the oldest historians extant, there is abundant evidence that all captives were considered slaves; and Ulys ses relates his escape from a I'htenician, who had doomed him to Lybian slavery.— Thus have we the slave trade at that early period. Philip of Macedon sold the cap tive Thebans, in which example he was followed by his son, Alexander the Great. In Athens, during the most polished ages, slavery was a well established order, altho’, it issaid, that slaves were treated with more leniency than among other nations. In Home and feparta the worst features were exhibited. The Spartans butchered their slaves, when, by reason of great numbers, they would likely become dangerous— Camillus, one of the nost accomplished generals of the Roman Republic, sold his Etrurian captives to pay the Roman ladies for jewels they had presented to Apollo. Fahius sold 30,000 citizens of Tarentum to the highest bidder. Julius Caesar did the same with 54,000 captives. Even debtors were allowed,by the twelve tables, to become the slaves of their creditors. So numerous were the slaves owned by the rich patricians, that Isidorus, who was al- most a cotenporary with our Savior left to heirs, 4,ll6slaves; and August put2o,ooo, of the same class, on board the corn ships 1 hough many laws were enacted by Au gustus and other patriotic emperors, says the British Encyclopedia, to diminish the power of creditors over their insolvent debtors—though the influence of the mild spirit of Christianity tended much to meli orate the condition of slaves, even under Pagan masters, and though tho emperor, llulrian,maJv it capital to kill a slave with out a just reason, yet this commerce for many ages, prevailed, in the empire af ter the conversion of Constantine to the re ligion of Christ. It was not completely abolished, even in the reign of Justinian i and, in many countriee, which had been once provinces of the empire,it contiuued long after the empire had fallen to pieces. Among the ancient Germans, gamesters often became slaves from play, and slave ry is said to have existed extensively though in a mild form,according toTacitus In England,in the age of Alfred the Great (tenth century), puichases of men, horses and oxen, are mentioned in the samestat ule. In 1574, Queen Elizabeth issued a commission to inquire into the condition of her bond moi-> —J -- *•• etc., with a view of compounding with them for their freedom. The colliers and salters of Scotland were not manumitted until the close of the eighteenth century. Those men could he transferred by written deed fiom proprietor to proprietor, aod were in no respect privileged without such deed. We have not mentioned Egypt, where Joseph was sold to slavery, and where, in that condition, the Israelites existed 400 years. The Scythians established slave ry throughout their northern wilds.— Babylon, Tyre, and all the countries a round Palestine, had slavery as one of their institutions. The “wrath of Achil les" was a quarrel about a slave.— “In early Grecian republics, slavery seemed to be an indispensable element.— The slave markets of Rome were filled *Dr. Cartwright once told tig, that one of the crime* denounced in the Bible, ig denominated 'erm which mean*, literally, slave stealers, (A; i mists.) We forget in what connection the term is used ; perhaps in rofcrence to Tyre. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most approved sly l* and on the left terms,at the Office of the SCTTTHEP.IT TPsIBTTITE -BY— WM. B. HARRISON. NUMBER 31. with men of every complexion and every clime.” After the conquest of the Nor mans, slaves were exported from Eng land into Ireland, until the Irish them selves decreed their emancipation. On the Baltic, the Germans conducted the slave trade, and the Russians supplied slaves to Constantinople by th.e Dnieper Even the word slave is derived from tho Sclavonic tribes, who were reduced to slavery in their wars with the Cfermans. The Jews purchased slaves in France for the Saracens. The Arabians are said to have pawned their children to the Italian monarchs. The Venetians purchased slaves at Rome fur the Arabs of Spain and Sicily. In the time of the crusades, three slaves were the price of a war horse. In the countless battles of the Moors and I Christians, the captives were indiscrimiir ately enslaved in the worse form. Chris tians regarded it a pious work, and the in fidels retaliated through the pirates of Barbary. On the discovery of America, the native Indians were imported into Spain as slaves All the rivers of the country were pene trated for this commerce.which was effect ed through fraud and force. E ven Colum bus sent five hundred such slaves to bo sold at Seville. This traffic is said to have continued two centuries. Tho New Eng. landers enslaved the Pequods, the Wald rans and the Annon Indians,and they even sought Indian slaves from the Southern provinces.* The colonists were supplied with white servants from England, by a class of men called “spirits,” who deluded them away and sold them in England, as well as in thiscoutry, under the hammer. The Scots taken in battle were sold to slavery, tho royalist prisoners and the Catholics of Ireland. The prisoners of Monmouth were eagerly sought as a mer chantable commodity. Jeffries, the famous judge of James 11, considered these pri soners asworth “ten or fifteen pounds a piece.f In regard to African slavery, it appeals first to have taken deep root in Africa itself, though it is clear, from modern re searches that this peoplewere held in slave ry by the Egyptians, as proved by their monumens. The Africans, at no petiod of history, were devoid of slavery among themselves. They traded slaves to the Tyrians and Carthagenians. Slavery, says the Encyclopedia, seems indeed to have prevailed through all Africa,from the very first peopling of that unexplored country; and we doubt if, in any age of the world, the unhapyy negro was absolutely secute of his personal freedom, or even of not be ing sold to a foreign trader. The African princes were in the habit of destoying thousands of their prisoners, before an op portunity offered of selling them. The Guinea coast supplied the Arabs with slaves, hundreds of years before the Por tuguese embarked in the traffic. Tho Arabs of the desert have always been served by negro slaves. In 651, the king of Numidia promised an annual present of Ethiopian slaves to the Arabs of Egypt. Negro slaves were found in Greece [Ban croft.] In 1100, they must have been un commmon in Europe, for we learn, the crusaders burst into laughter on seeing some negroes in Asia, so comical was their appearance. I nppears, the Portuguese, fifty years before the discovery of America, found the "trade in negro slaves, having curled hair,” very profitable, 'lbe Spau iardsvied with them in the trade at Sevijle. Isabella excepted the Moors, or negroes of Africa, from the act emancipating tho Indians of America. Queen Elizabelh was so delighted with the success of John Hawknis’s slave oper ations in America,that she became a part ner in his monopoly, sharing his gains and protecting him in this worst of enter prises. on».w win ij Hisiui) ujl slavery hi mt v. States we have already given (See Thorn ton, 26th and 27tli pages for the Quaker and Yankee participation in it.) The W. India Company sent slaves to N. Yoik by thousands. The Stewarts,and even Queen Anne, patronized the traffic. Amsterdam paricipated in its results in her corporate capacity. Pennsylvania maintained that it was “neither just nor convenient to eman cipate her slaves;” and Rhode Island, tho greatest of all the sluve traders, “doubted if slaves should be baptized, as them they might become ftee.” It is well known how the introduction slavery was forced upon the South, and how long resisted. The northern country even declared, that no person should own, in the colonies, land at all, unless he Would purchase at least four negro slaves to every hundred acres ]: 'See Thornton's “Slavery*’ and the authori ties there cited, p. 21. tSee the stirring but disgusting picture of the scene, when peers and dignitaries and favorites, male and female, importuned the king for tho privilege of disposing of these prisoners, and the success which attended them, in Macaulay's History of Engloud. {Thornton's “Slavery,' p. 29,32.