“I was passing through a piece of timbered land, and on a sudden I heard a sound as of murder; I rode in that direction, and at some distance discovered a naked black man, hung to the limb of a tree by his hands, his feet chained together, and a pine rail laid with one end on the chain between his legs, and the other upon the ground, to steady him; and in this condition the overseer gave him four hundred lashes.  The miserably lacerated slave was then taken down, and put to the care of a physician.  And what do you suppose was the offence for which all this was done?  Simply this; his owner, observing that he laid off corn rows too crooked, he replied, ’Massa, much corn grow on crooked row as on straight one!’ This was it—­this was enough.  His overseer, boasting of his skill in managing a nigger, he was submitted to him, and treated as above.”

DAVID L. CHILD, Esq., of Northampton, Massachusetts, Secretary of the United States’ minister at the Court of Lisbon during the administration of President Monroe, stated the following fact in an oration delivered by him in Boston, in 1831. (See Child’s “Despotism of Freedom,” p. 30.

“An honorable friend, who stands high in the state and in the nation, [12] was present at the burial of a female slave in Mississippi, who had been whipped to death at the stake by her master, because she was gone longer of an errand to the neighboring town than her master thought necessary.  Under the lash she protested tlat she was ill, and was obliged to rest in the fields.  To complete the climax of horror, she was delivered of a dead infant while undergoing the punishment.”

[Footnote 12:  “The narrator of this fact is now absent from the United States, and I do not feel at liberty to mention his name.”]

The same fact is stated by MRS. CHILD in her “Appeal.”  In answer to a recent letter, inquiring of Mr. and Mrs. Child if they were now at liberty to disclose the name of their informant, Mr. C. says,—­

“The witness who stated to us the fact was John James Appleton, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass.  He is now in Europe, and it is not without some hesitation that I give his name.  He, however, has openly embraced our cause, and taken a conspicuous part in some anti-slavery public meetings since the time that I felt a scruple at publishing his name.  Mr. Appleton is a gentleman of high talents and accomplishments.  He has been Secretary of Legation at Rio Janeiro, Madrid, and the Hague; Commissioner at Naples, and Charge d’Affaires at Stockholm.”

The two following facts are stated upon the authority of the REV.  JOSEPH G. WILSON, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Salem, Washington co., Indiana.

“In Bath co., Kentucky, Mr. L., in the year ’32 or ’33, while intoxicated, in a fit of rage whipped a female slave until she fainted and fell on the floor.  Then he whipped her to get up; then with red hot tongs he burned off her ears, and whipped her again! but all in vain.  He then ordered his negro men to carry her to the cabin.  There she was found dead next morning.