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Show PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY. G-3 exclaimed, " There goes the Ge-Ge-orgy-men* with a drove o' niggers chain'd together two and two." \Vho.\t's that, said I,-1 must see,-and, going to the door, I just had a distant glimpse of a light covered waggon, tellowed by a procession of men, women and children, resembling that of a funeml. I lollo\\'ecl them lmstily ; and as I approached so near as to discover that they " ·ere bound together in pairs, some with ropes, and some with iron chains, (which I had hitherto seen used .only fOr restraining beasts,) the involuntary successive heavings of my bosom- became irrepre!3sible. This was, with me, an aH'ection perft:ctly peculiar to itself, which never having befOre experienced, gave me some surprise. I have since heard an intelligent gentleman, from Scotland, describe a similar symptom. He affirmed, that on his ar· rival upon the coast of the United States, (in Chesapeake Bay,) his first view of th e slaves brought his heart into his throat. I have also been told by a gentleman, who holds a seat in the senate of the United States, that " a drove cif manacled slaves, was to him, an insupportable spectacle, which he generally em/eavored toavoirl~·''-and by a representative, (since deceased,) from one or the slave states, who was himself a possessor of slaves, " tlzat he never could bear to see slaves manacled and fettered with bolts and chains, nor families torn asunder and sold to the slave-traders, and ·wondered haw any one could he so inhuman as to do such acts." Overtaking the caravan, just opposite to the old capitol (then in a state of ruins Ji·mn the conflagration by the British army,)t I inquired -x- On first bearing 1his epithet used, I was at a loss to account for its meaning. [ have since observed that , in the middle sh1tes, the general title applied to slave-traders, indiscriminately, is" Georgiamen!' t \Vouhl it be superstitious to presume, Umt the Sovereign Father of all nations, permitled the perpe.trn.li011 of this apparently execrable transaction, as a}ier,'f, though so.luhtry signal of his displeasure at the conduct of his Columbian chiltlren, in erecting and idolizing this splendid fabric as the temple of freedom, and at the same time cppressing with the yoke of captivity aod toilsome bondage, twelve or fifteen huodred UlOusand of Lheir AfriciUl breU1rcn (by Jogicll.l in-- E |