27/37 Our moneyed men and speculators are now wide awake. It will take a pretty cunning child to cheat them."[37] [Footnote 37: _Louisiana Courier_, Feb. 12 and 15, 1840.] The disesteem in which the slavetraders were held was so great and general in the Southern community as to produce a social ostracism. The prevailing sentiment was expressed, with perhaps a little exaggeration, by D.R. Some of them, we do not doubt, are conscientious men, but the number is few. |