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this town is seated, I stepped into one of the large tobacco warehouses which are built here, for the reception and inspection of that plant, before it is permitted to be exported. On entering into con- versation with an inspector, as he was employed in looking over a parcel of tobacco, he lamented the licenciousness which he remarked so generally prevailed in this town. He said, that in his remem- brance, the principal part of the inhabitants were emigrants from Scotland, and that it was consi- dered so reproachful to the white inhabitants, if they were found to have an illicit connection with their female slaves, that their neighbours would shun the company of such, as of persons with whom it was a reproach to be acquainted. The case was now so much altered that, he believed, there were but few slave holders in the place who were free from guilt in this respect: and that it was now thought but little of. Such was the bru- tality and hardness of heart which this evil pro- duced, that some amongst them paid no more regard to selling their own children, by their female slaves, or even their brothers and sisters, in the same line, than they would do to the disposal of a cow or a horse, or any other property in the brute creation. To so low a degree of degrada- tion does the system of negro slavery sink the white inhabitants, who are unhappily engaged in it. 9th Month, 29th.