“One Wall, in Chester district, S.C., owned a slave, whom he hired to his brother-in-law, Wm. Beckman, for whom the slave worked eighteen months, and worked well.  Two weeks after returning to his master he ran away on account of bad treatment.  To induce him to return, the master sold him nominally to his neighbor, to whom the slave gave himself up, and by whom he was returned to his master:—­Punishment, stripes.  To prevent escape a bar of iron was fastened with three bands, at the waist, knee, and ankle.  That night he broke the bands and bar, and escaped.  Next day he was taken and whipped to death, by three men, the master, Thorn, and the overseer.  First, he was whipped and driven towards home; on the way he attempted to escape, and was shot at by the master,—­caught, and knocked down with the butt of the gun by Thorn.  In attempting to cross a ditch he fell, with his feet down, and face on the bank; they whipped in vain to get him up—­he died.  His soul ascended to God, to be a swift witness against his oppressors.  This took place at 12 o’clock.  Next evening an inquest was held.  Of thirteen jurors, summoned by the coroner, nine said it was murder; two said it was manslaughter, and two said it was JUSTIFIABLE!  He was bound over to court, tried, and acquitted—­not even fined!”

The following fact is stated on the authority of Mr. WM. WILLIS, of Green Plains, Clark co.  Ohio; formerly of Caroline co. on the eastern shore of Maryland.

“Mr. W. knew a slave called Peter White, who was sold to be taken to Georgia; he escaped, and lived a long time in the woods—­was finally taken.  When he found himself surrounded, he surrendered himself quietly.  When his pursuers had him in their possession, they shot him in the leg, and broke it, out of mere wantonness.  The next day a Methodist minister set his leg, and bound it up with splints.  The man who took him, then went into his place of confinement, wantonly jumped upon his leg and crushed it.  His name was William Sparks.”

Most of our readers are familiar with the horrible atrocities perpetrated in New Orleans, in 1834, by a certain Madame La Laurie, upon her slaves.  They were published extensively in northern newspapers at the time.  The following are extracts from the accounts as published in the New Orleans papers immediately after the occurrence.  The New Orleans Bee says:—­

“Upon entering one of the apartments, the most appalling spectacle met their eyes.  Seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated, were seen suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn, from one extremity to the other.  They had been confined for several months in the situation from which they had thus providentially been rescued; and had been merely kept in existence to prolong their sufferings, and to make them taste all that a most refined cruelty could inflict.”

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