“About the year 1825, a slave had escaped for Canada, but was arrested in Hardin county.  On his return, I saw him in Hart county—­his wrists tied together before, his arms tied close to his body, the rope then passing behind his body, thence to the neck of a horse on which rode the master, with a club about three feet long, and of the size of a hoe handle; which, by the appearance of the slave, had been used on his head, so as to wear off the hair and skin in several places, and the blood was running freely from his mouth and nose; his heels very much bruised by the horse’s feet, as his master had rode on him because he would not go fast enough.  Such was the slave’s appearance when passing through where I resided.  Such cases were not unfrequent.”

The following is furnished by Mr. F.A.  HART, of Middletown, Connecticut, a manufacturer, and an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  It occurred in 1824, about twenty-five miles this side of Baltimore, Maryland.—­

“I had spent the night with a Methodist brother; and while at breakfast, a person came in and called for help.  We went out and found a crowd collected around a carriage.  Upon approaching we discovered that a slave-trader was endeavoring to force a woman into his carriage.  He had already put in three children, the youngest apparently about eight years of age.  The woman was strong, and whenever he brought her to the side of the carriage, she resisted so effectually with her feet that he could not get her in.  The woman becoming exhausted, at length, by her frantic efforts, he thrust her in with great violence, stamped her down upon the bottom with his feet! shouted to the driver to go on; and away they rolled, the miserable captives moaning and shrieking, until their voices were lost in the distance.”

Mr. SAMUEL HALL, a teacher in Marietta College, Ohio, writes as follows:—­

“Mr. ISAAC C. FULLER is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Marietta.  He was a fellow student of mine while in college, and now resides in this place.  He says:—­In 1832, as I was descending the Ohio with a flat boat, near the ‘French Islands,’ so called, below Cincinnati, I saw two negroes on horseback.  The horses apparently took fright at something and ran.  Both jumped over a rail fence; and one of the horses, in so doing, broke one of his fore-legs, falling at the same time and throwing the negro who was upon his back.  A white man came out of a house not over two hundred yards distant, and came to the spot.  Seizing a stake from the fence, he knocked the negro down five or six times in succession.