SALE OF SLAVES IN WASHINGTON.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 769, 27 August 1853, Page 3

SALE OF SLAVES IN WASHINGTON.

(From the “ National Era,” (U. S - ) “ Pianoforte, household and kitchen furniture, negro boy, horses, harness, carryall, carts, farming utensils, &c.„ at auction, on Saturday morning, December 11, at 11 o’clock, in front of the auction rooms, I shall sell without reserve, &c., at 12 o’clock, one negro boy, eighteen years pf age ; also, a negro girl, three horses, saddles, bridles, and harness, carryall, two carts, wheelbarrow, hay-rake, two ploughs, cultivator, haycart, lot of farm - harness, &c. Terms cash.— James C. M’Guire, auctioneer.” The above advertisement appeared in the National Intelligencer for several days prior to the sale. Pursuant thereto a crowd collected at the corner of Pensylvania-avenue and Tenth-Street, on Tuesday morning. After the sale of horses, cows, and farming utensils, the human cattle were put up ; namely, a boy, eighteen years old, ami a girl sixteen years old. On putting up, the boy the auctioneer said, that' he would give any man twenty-five dollars, if he would relieve him of tjie disagreeable duty of selling those children. No fine offering to relieve him he proceeded to pell (them,, fie stated" that he was informed that the uoy was restricted to the district, which he believed was the fact; that the boy was deaf, had a running in his head and was an invalid: that he was the pet of his mother, who was present in great distress, and desired, as did also the relatives of the family to whom he belonged, not to

be separated from him. These children were part of the estate of Jesse Brown, deceased, late P£°“ prietor of Brown’s Hotel; and it wa's known that Marshall Brown, one of the heirs, was present tor the purpose of buying the _ boy, « solo, at a reasonable price, that he might not be separated from his mother. The bidding commenced and he was struck off to Mr. Brown at 325 dollars, when a man by the name of Naylor, a trader, claimed the bid as his, and insisted upon the neOTO beng struck off to him. Mr. Brown averred that the bid was his, and claimed the boy. a y 9* threatened to prosecute the auctioneer it ie i not get him. After much cavilling the bidders, the bov was again put up, and this man, Naylor, advanced the bid to 330 dollars, w eu the auctioneer, prompted by feelings ot luunani .y, offered him twenty-five dollars if he would not bid more. This offer was accepted with the Chi istian remark that he (Naylor) “ had as lief make twenty-five dollars this Way as to make it out ol a nigger.” So the twenty-five dollars were paid over, and the poor trembling boy was delivers to Mr. Brown. The girl only sixteen years of age, was next put up, and in the presence of her agonised mother, was struck oil to Judge Sturgis, o Georgia for the sum of dollars; and this chi d is now probably on her way to that distant Stale where she will most likely drag oiit a miserable existence in the cotton field, without a single friend on whom to rely in ease of sickness or distress. This all took place in a Christian community, within half-a-mile of the capital of this free and enlightened ration, where sat, at the very time this disgraceful scene was going on, the representatives of a people whose laws are based on the principle of equal rights and privileges, and who have declared u that all men are created free aud equal!”