Judge RUFFIN, of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, in one of his judicial decisions, says—­“The slave, to remain a slave, must feel that there is NO APPEAL FROM HIS MASTER.  No man can anticipate the provocations which the slave would give, nor the consequent wrath of the master, prompting him to BLOODY VENGEANCE on the turbulent traitor, a vengeance generally practiced with impunity, by reason of its PRIVACY.”—­See Wheeler’s Law of Slavery p. 247.

MR. MOORE, of VIRGINIA, in his speech before the Legislature of that state, Jan. 15, 1832, says:  “It must be confessed, that although the treatment of our slaves is in the general, as mild and humane as it can be, that it must always happen, that there will be found hundreds of individuals, who, owing either to the natural ferocity of their dispositions, or to the effects of intemperance, will be guilty of cruelty and barbarity towards their slaves, which is almost intolerable, and at which humanity revolts.”

TESTIMONY OF B. SWAIN, ESQ., OF NORTH CAROLINA.

“Let any man of spirit and feeling, for a moment cast his thoughts over this land of slavery—­think of the nakedness of some, the hungry yearnings of others, the flowing tears and heaving sighs of parting relations, the wailings and wo, the bloody cut of the keen lash, and the frightful scream that rends the very skies—­and all this to gratify ambition, lust, pride, avarice, vanity, and other depraved feelings of the human heart....  THE WORST IS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.  Were all the miseries, the horrors of slavery, to burst at once into view, a peal of seven-fold thunder could scarce strike greater alarm.”—­See “Swain’s Address," 1830.

TESTIMONY OF DR. JAMES C. FINLEY,

Son of Dr. Finley, one of the founders of the Colonization Society, and brother of R.S.  Finley, agent of the American Colonization Society. Dr. J.C.  Finley was formerly one of the editors of the Western Medical Journal, at Cincinnati, and is well known in the west as utterly hostile to immediate abolition.

“In almost the last conversation I had with you before I left Cincinnati, I promised to give you some account of some scenes of atrocious cruelty towards slaves, which I witnessed while I lived at the south.  I almost regret having made the promise, for not only are they so atrocious that you will with difficulty believe them, but I also fear that they will have the effect of driving you into that abolitionism, upon the borders of which you have been so long hesitating.  The people of the north are ignorant of the horrors of slavery—­of the atrocities which it commits upon the unprotected slave. * * *