“A young woman, who was generally very badly treated, after receiving a more severe whipping than usual, ran away.  In a few days she came back, and was sent into the field to work.  At this time the garment next her skin was stiff like a scab, from the running of the sores made by the whipping.  Towards night, she told her master that she was sick, and wished to go to the house.  She went, and as soon as she reached it, laid down on the floor exhausted.  The mistress asked her what the matter was?  She made no reply.  She asked again; but received no answer.  ‘I’ll see,’ said she, ‘if I can’t make you speak.’  So taking the tongs, she heated them red hot, and put them upon the bottoms of her feet; then upon her legs and body; and, finally, in a rage, took hold of her throat.  This had the desired effect.  The poor girl faintly whispered, ‘Oh, misse, don’t—­I am most gone;’ and expired.”

Extract of a letter from Rev. C.S.  RENSHAW, pastor of the Congregational Church, Quincy, Illinois.

“Judge Menzies of Boone county, Kentucky, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a slaveholder, told me that he knew some overseers in the tobacco growing region of Virginia, who, to make their slaves careful in picking the tobacco, that is taking the worms off; (you know what a loathsome thing the tobacco worm is) would make them eat some of the worms, and others who made them eat every worm they missed in picking.”

“Mrs. NANCY JUDD, a member of the Non-Conformist Church in Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio, and formerly a resident of Kentucky, testifies that she knew a slaveholder,

“Mr. Brubecker, who had a number of slaves, among whom was one who would frequently avoid labor by hiding himself; for which he would get severe floggings without the desired effect, and that at last Mr. B. would tie large cats on his naked body and whip them to make them tear his back, in order to break him of his habit of hiding.”

Rev. HORACE MOULTON, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Marlborough, Massachusetts, says: 

“Some, when other modes of punishment will not subdue them, cat-haul them; that is, take a cat by the nape of the neck and tail, or by its hind legs, and drag the claws across the back until satisfied; this kind of punishment, as I have understood, poisons the flesh much worse than the whip, and is more dreaded by the slave.”

Rev. ABEL BROWN, Jr. late pastor of the first Baptist Church, Beaver, Pennsylvania, in a communication to Rev. C.P.  Grosvenor, Editor of the Christian Reflector, says: