--Seventy-nine negroes will be offered for sale on Monday,
September 10, at 12 o'clock, being the entire stock of the late
John Graves in an excellent condition, and all warranted against
the common vices. Among them are several mechanics, able-bodied
field-hands, plough-boys, and women with children, some of them
very prolific, affording a rare opportunity for any one who wishes
to raise a strong and healthy lot of servants for their own use.
Also several mulatto girls of rare personal qualities,--two of
these very superior.
Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two
daughters. Ere young Linwood left the quadroon that evening, he
promised her that he would become her purchaser, and make her free
and her own mistress.
Mr. Graves had long been considered not only an excellent and
upright citizen of the first standing among the whites, but even
the slaves regarded him as one of the kindest of masters. Having
inherited his slaves with the rest of his property, he became
possessed of them without any consultation or wish of his own. He
would neither buy nor sell slaves, and was exceedingly careful, in
letting them out, that they did not find oppressive and tyrannical
masters. No slave speculator ever dared to cross the threshold of
this planter of the Old Dominion. He was a constant attendant upon
religious worship, and was noted for his general benevolence. The
American Bible Society, the American Tract Society, and the cause
of Foreign Missions, found in him a liberal friend.
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