In an article on the agriculture of Louisiana, published in the second number of the “Western Review” is the following:—­“The work is admitted to be severe for the hands, (slaves) requiring, when the process of making sugar is commenced, TO BE PRESSED NIGHT AND DAY.”

Mr. Philemon Bliss, of Ohio, in his letters from Florida, in 1835, says, “The negroes commence labor by daylight in the morning, and excepting the plowboys, who must feed and rest their horses, do not leave the field till dark in the evening.”

Mr. Stone, in his letter from Natchez, an extract of which was given above, says, “It is a general rule on all regular plantations, that the slaves rise in season in the morning, to be in the field as soon as it is light enough for them to see to work, and remain there until it is so dark that they cannot see.  This is the case at all seasons of the year.”

President Edwards, in the sermon already extracted from, says, “The slaves are kept at hard labor from five o’clock in the morning till nine at night, excepting time to eat twice during the day.”

Hon. R.J.  Turnbull, a South Carolina slaveholder, already quoted, speaking of the harvesting of cotton, says:  "All the pregnant women even, on the plantation, and weak and sickly negroes incapable of other labor, are then in requisition.” * * * See “Refutation of the Calumnies circulated against the Southern and Western States,” by a South Carolinian. ]

[Footnote F:  A late number of the “Western Medical Reformer” contains a dissertation by a Kentucky physician, on Cachexia Africana, or African consumption, in which the writer says—­

“This form of disease deserves more attention from the medical profession than it has heretofore elicited.  Among the causes may be named the mode and manner in which the negroes live.  They are crowded together in a small hut, sometimes having an imperfect, and sometimes no floor—­and seldom raised from the ground, illy ventilated, and surrounded with filth.  Their diet and clothing, are also causes which might be enumerated as exciting agents.  They live on a coarse, crude and unwholesome diet, and are imperfectly clothed, both summer and winter; sleeping upon filthy and frequently damp beds.”

Hon. R.J.  Turnbull, of South Carolina, whose testimony on another point has been given above, says of the slaves, that they live in “clay cabins, with clay chimneys,” &c.  Mr. Clay, a Georgia slaveholder, from whom an extract has been given already, says, speaking of the dwellings of the slaves, “Too many individuals of both sexes are crowded into one house, and the proper separation of apartments cannot be observed.  That the slaves are insensible to the evils arising from it, does not in the least lessen the unhappy consequences.”  Clay’s Address before the Presbytery of Georgia.—­P. 13. ]