“While traveling as agent for the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, I attended a three days’ meeting in Gates county, Friday, the first day, passed off.  Saturday morning came, and the pastor of the church, who lived a few miles off, did not make his appearance.  The day passed off, and no news from the pastor.  On Sabbath morning, he came hobbling along, having but little use of one foot.  He soon explained:  said he had a hired negro man, who, on Saturday morning, gave him a ’little slack jaw.’ Not having a stick at hand, he fell upon him with his fist and foot, and in kicking him, he injured his foot so seriously, that he could not attend meeting on Saturday.

“Some of the slaveholding ministers at the south, put their slaves under overseers, or hire them out, and then take the pastoral care of churches.  The Rev. Mr. B——­, formerly of Pennsylvania, had a plantation in Marlborough District, South Carolina, and was the pastor of a church in Darlington District.  The Rev. Mr. T——­, of Johnson county, North Carolina, has a plantation in Alabama.

“I was present, and saw the Rev. J——­ W——­, of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, hire out four slaves to work in the gold mines is Burke county.  The Rev. H——­ M——­, of Orange county, sold for $900, a negro man to a speculator, on a Monday of a camp meeting.

“Runaway slaves are frequently hunted with guns and dogs. I was once out on such an excursion, with my rifle and two dogs. I trust the Lord has forgiven me this heinous wickedness!  We did not take the runaways.

“Slaves are sometimes most unmercifully punished for trifling offences, or mere mistakes.

“As it relates to amalgamation, I can say, that I have been in respectable families, (so called,) where I could distinguish the family resemblance in the slaves who waited upon the table.  I once hired a slave who belonged to his own uncle. It is so common for the female slaves to have white children, that little or nothing is ever said about it.  Very few inquiries are made as to who the father is.

“Thus, brother ——­, I have given you very briefly, the result, in part, of my observations and experience relative to slavery.  You can make what disposition of it you please.  I am willing that my name should go to the world with what I have now written.

“Yours affectionately, for the oppressed,

“FRANCIS HAWLEY.”

Colebrook, Connecticut, March 18, 1839.

TESTIMONY OF REUBEN G. MACY AND RICHARD MACY.

The following is an extract of a letter recently received from CHARLES MARRIOTT of Hudson, New York.  Mr. Marriott is an elder in the Religious Society of Friends, and is extensively known and respected.

“The two following brief statements, are furnished by Richard Macy and Reuben G. Macy, brothers, both of Hudson, New York.  They are head carpenters by trade, and have been well known to me for more than thirty years, as esteemed members of the Religious Society of Friends.  They inform me that during their stay in South Carolina, a number more similar cases to those here related, came under their notice, which to avoid repetition they omit.