“In the same year I worked for a Mr. Nowland, eleven miles above Baton Rouge, La. at a place called ‘Thomas’ Bend.’  He had an overseer who was accustomed to flog more or less of the slaves every morning.  I heard the blows and screams as regularly as we used to hear the college bell that summoned us to any duty when we went to school.  This overseer was a nephew of Nowland, and there were about fifty slaves on his plantation.  Nowland himself related the following to me.  One of his slaves ran away, and came to the Homo Chitto river, where he found no means of crossing.  Here he fell in with a white man who knew his master, being on a journey from that vicinity.  He induced the slave to return to Baton Rouge, under the promise of giving him a pass, by which he might escape, but, in reality, to betray him to his master.  This he did, instead of fulfilling his promise.  Nowland said that he took the slave and inflicted five hundred lashes upon him, cutting his back all to pieces, and then thew on hot embers.  The slave was on the plantation at the time, and told me the same story.  He also rolled up his sleeves, and showed me the scars on his arms, which, in consequence, appeared in places to be callous to the bone.  I was with Nowland between five and six months.”

Rev. JOHN RANKIN, formerly of Tennessee, now pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ripley, Ohio, has furnished the following statement:—­

“The Rev. LUDWELL G. GAINES, now pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Goshen, Clermont county, Ohio, stated to me, that while a resident of a slave state, he was summoned to assist in taking a man who had made his black woman work naked several days, and afterwards murdered her.  The murderer armed himself, and threatened to shoot the officer who went to take him; and although there was ample assistance at hand, the officer declined further interference.”

Mr. RANKIN adds the following:—­

“A Presbyterian preacher, now resident in a slave state, and therefore it is not expedient to give his name, stated, that he saw on board of a steamboat at Louisville, Kentucky, a woman who had been forced on board, to be carried off from all she counted dear on earth.  She ran across the boat and threw herself into the river, in order to end a life of intolerable sorrows.  She was drawn back to the boat and taken up.  The brutal driver beat her severely, and she immediately threw herself again into the river.  She was hooked up again, chained, and carried off.”

Testimony of M. WILLIAM HANSBOROUGH, of Culpepper county, Virginia, the “owner” of sixty slaves.

“I saw a slave taken out of prison by his master, on a hot summer’s day, and driven, by said master, on the road before him, till he dropped down dead.”

The above statement was made by Mr. Hansborough to Lindley Coates, of Lancaster county, Pa. a distinguished member of the Society of Friends, and a member of the late Convention in Pa. for altering the State Constitution.  The letter from Mr. C. containing this testimony of Mr. H. is now before us.