The fact that Virginians breed slaves expressly for sale is well exposed in this book. Our author is kind enough to believe that they never raise a single negro for the _express purpose_ of selling him or her; but we, who live nearer the 'sacred soil,' know better. It is not many days since a farmer in our present immediate vicinity, on the Southern Pennsylvania line, found himself obliged to dismiss a fine six-foot negro runaway from Virginia, whom he had hired, on account of the entire inability of the contraband to do the simplest farm tasks. 'What _is_ the reason you can't stand work?' inquired the amazed farmer. 'Why, mass', to tell de trufe, I wasn't brought up to wuck (work), but to _sell_. If I'd been wucked too hard, it ud a spiled my looks fo' de markit.' Professor Cairnes may accept the sorrowful assurances of more than one person, who has been taken frequently enough into the councils of 'the enemy' in bygone times (_crede experto Ruperto_), that slaves _are_ begotten, born, bred, and raised for the Southern market--as much so as any pigs--and that, too, by eminently aristocratic and highly refined scions of first families. Now that we can and dare speak the truth, it is not amiss to do so. We recall the day when to have taken part in the charge of the Six Hundred would have been a trifle of bravery compared to making the above truthful statement--for any one who valued social standing, or indeed a whole skin--on the border. Whether their own children were sold may be imagined from an anecdote long current in Virginia, relative to ex-Governor Wise, who, in a certain law case where he was opposed by a Northern trader, decided of a certain slave, that the chattel, being a mulatto, was of more value than 'a molangeon.' 'And what, in the name of God, _is_ a molungeon?' inquired the astonished 'Northern man.' 'A _mulatto_,' replied Wise, is the child of a female house-servant by young master'--a molungeon is the offspring of a field hand by a Yankee peddler.' Mr. Cairnes has, we doubt not, often heard of mulattoes--they constitute the great majority of Virginia slaves. But did he ever hear of 'molungeons'?