REV.  JOSEPH M. SADD, Castile, Genessee CO.  N.Y. who was till recently a preacher in Missouri, says,

“It is true that barbarous cruelties are inflicted upon them, such as terrible lacerations with the whip, and excruciating tortures are sometimes experienced from the thumb screw.”

Extract of a letter from SARAH M. GRIMKE, dated 4th Month, 2nd, 1839

“If the following extracts from letters which I have received from South Carolina, will be of any use thou art at liberty to publish them.  I need not say, that the names of the writers are withheld of necessity, because such sentiments if uttered at the south would peril their lives.”

EXTRACTS

—­South Carolina, 4th Month, 5th, 1835.  “With regard to slavery I must confess, though we had heard a great deal on the subject, we found on coming South the half, the worst half too, had not been told us; not that we have ourselves seen much oppression, though truly we have felt its deadening influence, but the accounts we have received from every tongue that nobly dares to speak upon the subject, are indeed deplorable.  To quote the language of a lady, who with true Southern hospitality, received us at her mansion.  “The northern people don’t know anything of slavery at all, they think it is perpetual bondage merely, but of the depth of degradation that that word involves, they have no conception; if they had any just idea of it, they would I am sure use every effort until an end was put to such a shocking system.’

“Another friend writing from South Carolina, and who sustains herself the legal relation of slaveholder, in a letter dated April 4th, 1838, says—­’I have some time since, given you my views on the subject of slavery, which so much engrosses your attention.  I would most willingly forget what I have seen and heard in my own family, with regard to the slaves. I shudder when I think of it, and increasingly feel that slavery is a curse since it leads to such cruelty.’”

PUNISHMENTS.

I. FLOGGINGS.

The slaves are terribly lacerated with whips, paddles, &c.; red pepper and salt are rubbed into their mangled flesh; hot brine and turpentine are poured into their gashes; and innumerable other tortures inflicted upon them.

We will in the first place, prove by a cloud of witnesses, that the slaves are whipped with such inhuman severity, as to lacerate and mangle their flesh in the most shocking manner, leaving permanent scars and ridges; after establishing this, we will present a mass of testimony, concerning a great variety of other tortures.  The testimony, for the most part, will be that of the slaveholders themselves, and in their own chosen words.  A large portion of it will be taken from