mortified; and it was impossible for him to lie down, on account of the prongs of his collar.”  He supplicated the General for relief.  The latter asked who had punished him so dreadfully?  The youth answered, his master had done it.  And because he could not work, this same master, in the same spirit of perversion, which extorts from Scripture a justification of the Slave Trade, had fulfilled the apostolic maxim, that he should have nothing to eat.  The use he meant to make of this instance was to show the unprotected state of the slaves.  What must it be, where such an instance could pass not only unpunished, but almost unregarded!  If, in the streets of London, but a dog were to be seen lacerated like this miserable man, how would the cruelty of the wretch be execrated, who had thus even abused a brute!

The judicial punishments also inflicted upon the Negro showed the low estimation, in which, in consequence of the strength of old customs and deep-rooted prejudices, they were held.  Mr. Edwards, in his speech to the Assembly at Jamaica, stated the following case, as one which had happened in one of the rebellions there.  Some slaves surrounded the dwelling-house of their mistress.  She was in bed with a lovely infant.  They deliberated upon the means of putting her to death in torment.  But in the end one of them reserved her for his mistress; and they killed her infant with an axe before her face.  “Now,” says Mr. Edwards, (addressing himself to his audience) “you will think that no torments were too great for such horrible excesses.  Nevertheless I am of a different opinion.  I think that death, unaccompanied with cruelty, should be the utmost exertion of human authority over our unhappy fellow-creatures.”  Torments, however, were always inflicted in these cases.  The punishment was gibbeting alive, and exposing the delinquents to perish by the gradual effects of hunger, thirst, and parching sun; in which situation they were known to suffer for nine days, with a fortitude scarcely credible, never uttering a single groan.  But horrible as the excesses might have been, which occasioned these punishments, it must be remembered, that they were committed by ignorant savages, who had been dragged from all they held most dear; whose patience had been exhausted by a cruel and loathsome confinement during their transportation; and whose resentment had been wound up to the highest pitch of fury by the lash of the driver.

But he would now mention another instance, by way of contrast, out of the evidence.  A child on board a slave-ship, of about ten months old, took sulk and would not eat.  The captain flogged it with a cat; swearing that he would make it eat, or kill it.  From this and other ill-treatment the child’s legs swelled.  He then ordered some water to be made hot to abate the swelling.  But even his tender mercies were cruel; for the cook, on putting his hand into the water, said it was too hot.  Upon this the captain swore at him, and