"Sordid, illiterate and vulgar ... men who have nothing whatever in common with the gentlemen of the Southern States."[298] Finch says: "A slave dealer is considered the lowest and most degraded occupation, and none will engage in it unless they have no other means of support."[299] Indeed it seems they were accounted the abhorrence of every one. Their descendants, when known, had a blot upon them and the property acquired in the traffic as well.[300] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 255: Featherstonhaugh: Excursion Through the Slave States, Vol. I., p. 128.] [Footnote 256: Liberator: Feb. 16, 1833. Buckingham: Slave States, Vol. II., p. 485.] [Footnote 257: Reed and Matheson: Visit to Am. Churches, Vol. I., p. 32.] [Footnote 258: Andrews: Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade, PP. 135-7.] [Footnote 259: Sturge: A Visit to the United States, p. 107.] [Footnote 260: Miner: Speech in Congress, Jan. 6, 1829. Gales and Seaton's Register of Debates in Congress, Vol. V., p. 167.] [Footnote 261: Whittier: A Letter in Emancipator, Nov. 23, 1843.] [Footnote 262: Andrews: Slavery and the Domestic Trade, p. 164.] [Footnote 263: Christian Freeman, Sept. 10, 1845.] [Footnote 264: African Repository, Vol. V., p. 381, cited from Mercantile Advertiser of New Orleans, Jan. 21, 1830. Tower: Slavery Unmasked, p. 304.] [Footnote 265: (Ingraham): The Southwest, Vol. II., p. 192.] [Footnote 266: Ibid., p. 201.] [Footnote 267: Christian Freeman, Jan. 2, 1845; quoted from Western Citizen by C.F.] [Footnote 268: Buckingham: Slave States of Am. II., p. 485. Liberator, Feb. 16, 1833. Abdy: Journal of a Residence in the United States, Vol. II., p. 100.] [Footnote 269: Andrews: Sl. and the Domestic Sl. Trade, p. 142.] [Footnote 270: Ibid.: p. 78. Buckingham: Slave States, Vol. II., p. 485. Liberator, Feb. 16, 1833. Featherstonhaugh: Excursion Through the Slave States, Vol. I., p. 120.] [Footnote 271: Niles' Reg., Sept. 5, 1829. Featherstonhaugh: Excursion Through the Slave States, Vol. I., p. 122. Niles' Reg., Oct. 14, 1826; Nov. 18, 1826; May 20, 1826.] [Footnote 272: (Ingraham): The Southwest, Vol. II., p. 238.] [Footnote 273: Adams: Southern View of Slavery, p. 77.] [Footnote 274: The Christian Citizen, Oct. 26, 1844. Featherstonhaugh: Excursion Through the Slave States, Vol. I., pp. 120-122. Palmer: Journal of Travels in the U.S., p. 142. Birkbeck: Notes on a Journey from the Coast of Va., p. 25.] [Footnote 275: (Paulding): Letters From the South, Vol. I., p. 128. (Ed. 1817.)] [Footnote 276: Buckingham: Slave States of America, Vol. II., p. 533. (Blane): An Excursion Through the U.S. and Canada, p. 226.] [Footnote 277: (Ingraham): The Southwest, Vol. II., p. 238.] [Footnote 278: Ibid.: Vol. II., p. 30.] [Footnote 279: Ashworth: A Tour in the U.S., Cuba and Canada, p. 81; also Sequel to Mrs. Kemble's Journal, p. 8 in (Y.) Sl. Pamp., Vol. XVII. (Ingraham): The Southwest, Vol. II., p. 201.]