The overseer, with his whip, either riding or standing about among them; or if the weather is hot, sitting under a shade. 'In going through all the states I visited, I do not now remember a single instance of cruel treatment. now of Plainfield, N. H. while traveling in the south, a few years ago, put up one night with a Methodist family, and spent the Sabbath with them. ", "On Tuesday evening last, 23d, an affray occurred at the town of Tallahasse, in this county, between Hugh Roark and Captain Flack, which resulted in the death of Roark. He replied, the way we serve them here is, we cut their backs until they are raw all over, and then salt them. Committed to jail, negro man Toy--he has been. 'Yes, sir.' ", Mr. GEORGE A. AVERY, an elder in the fourth Congregational Church, Rochester, N. Y., who spent four years in Virginia, says, "The slave children, very commonly of both sexes, up to the ages of eight and ten years, and I think in some instances beyond this age, go in a state of disgusting nudity. Mr. Morgan is a Justice of the Peace, and Messrs. Perkins and Rogers are designated by their titles. "Bee," Oct. 27, 1837. See 26 of the Penitentiary Act of 1816.--Prince's Digest, 386. yet the guiltless slave is subjected to an extensive system of cruel enactments, of no part of which, probably, has he ever heard.". Even Caligula, wretch as he was, would have shuddered at cutting their legs off, to prevent their climbing to them; or, if they had got there, at boring their eyes out, to prevent their reading them. how he would pray!' "There was, some time since, brought to trial in this town a planter residing about fifteen miles distant, for whipping his slave to death. He can strip you of all protection and thus expose you to all outrages, but if you are exposed to the weather, half clad and half sheltered, how yearn his tender bowels! As such would require much nursing, the time, trouble and expense necessary to raise them, would generally be more than they would be worth as working animals. the accused into the hands of justice. Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons, at the age of ninety, was dragged through the streets, beaten, stoned, trampled upon by the soldiers, and left to perish. * At this time there was some fear of insurrection and the slaves were forbidden to hold meetings. "Rev. The last three fights all occurred, if we mistake not, in the short space of one month. A relative, where she boarded, returning to his plantation after a temporary absence, was not met by his servants with such demonstrations of joy as was their wont. D. Herring, warden of Baltimore city jail, in the "Marylander," Oct. 6, 1837. The day I arrived at this place there was a man by the name of G----murdered by a negro man that belonged to him. The cords of one of her hands were so much contracted that her hand was useless. Mr. Zadock Sawyer, Cuthbert, Randolph county, Georgia, in the "Milledgeville Union," Oct. 2, 1838. The blameless Polycarp, trembling under the weight of a hundred years, was dragged to the stake and burned to ashes. We submit the question without argument. Ranaway from the Eagle Tavern, a negro fellow, named Nat. He banished all the Jews from their native land, and drove them to the ends of the earth; and unloosed the blood-hounds of persecution to rend in pieces his Christian subjects. From some cause, none of the guests appeared. No facts in his history are better authenticated than these. This conviction of slaveholders shows itself in various forms. Near Lexington with sugar, butter, cheese, or any thing she could 'cut Arthur Tappan Hanson. 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