“I do not know that any thing could be gained by particularizing the scenes of horrible barbarity, which fell under my observation during my short residence in one of the wealthiest, most intelligent, and most moral parts of Georgia.  Their number and atrocity are such, that I am confident they would gain credit with none but abolitionists.  Every thing will be conveyed in the remark, that in a state of society calculated to foster the worst passions of our nature, the slave derives no protection either from law or public opinion, and that ALL the cruelties which the Russians are reported to have acted towards the Poles, after their late subjugation, ARE SCENES OF EVERY-DAY OCCURRENCE in the southern states.  This statement, incredible as it may seem, falls short, very far short of the truth.”

The foregoing is extracted from a letter written by Dr. Finley to Rev. Asa Mahan, his former pastor, then of Cincinnati, now President of Oberlin Seminary.

TESTIMONY OF REV.  WILLIAM T. ALLAN, OF ILLINOIS, Son of a Slaveholder, Rev. Dr. Allan of Huntsville, Ala.

“At our house it is so common to hear their (the slaves’) screams, that we think nothing of it:  and lest any one should think that in general the slaves are well treated, let me be distinctly understood:—­cruelty is the rule, and kindness the exception.”

Extract of a letter dated July 2d, 1834, from Mr. NATHAN COLE, of St. Louis, Missouri, to Arthur Tappan, Esq. of this city: 

“I am not an advocate of the immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves of our country, yet no man has ever yet depicted the wretchedness of the situation of the slaves in colors as dark for the truth....  I know that many good people are not aware of the treatment to which slaves are usually subjected, nor have they any just idea of the extent of the evil.”

TESTIMONY OF REV.  JAMES A. THOME, A native of Kentucky—­Son of Arthur Thome Esq., till recently a Slaveholder.

“Slavery is the parent of more suffering than has flowed from any one source since the date of its existence.  Such sufferings too! Sufferings inconceivable and innumerable—­unmingled wretchedness from the ties of nature rudely broken and destroyed, the acutest bodily tortures, groans, tears and blood—­lying forever in weariness and painfulness, in watchings, in hunger and in thirst, in cold and nakedness.

“Brethren of the North, be not deceived. These sufferings still exist, and despite the efforts of their cruel authors to hush them down, and confine them within the precincts of their own plantations, they will ever and anon, struggle up and reach the ear of humanity.”—­Mr. Thome’s Speech at New York, May, 1834.

TESTIMONY OF THE MARYVILLE (TENNESSEE) INTELLIGENCER, OF OCT. 4, 1835.