with running, weak from the loss of blood, and smarting from his burns.  It was a cold night—­and in the morning the negro was dead.  Yet this monster escaped without even the shadow of a trial.  ‘The negro,’ said the doctor, ’died, by—­he knew not what; any how, Gibbs did not kill him.’[9] A short time since, (the letter is dated, April, 1838.) ’Gibbs whipped another negro unmercifully because the horse, with which he was ploughing, broke the reins and ran.  He then raised his whip against Mr. Bowers, (son of Mrs. P.) who shot him.  Since I came here,’ (a period of about six months,) there have been eight white men and two negroes killed, within 30 miles of me.”

[Footnote 9:  Mr. Knapp, gives me some further verbal particulars about this affair.  He says that his informant saw the negro dead the next morning, that his legs were blistered, and that the negroes affirmed that Gibbs compelled them to throw embers upon him.  But Gibbs denied it, and said the blistering was the effect of frost, as the negro was much exposed to before being taken up.  Mr. Bowers, a son of Mrs. Phillips by a former husband, attempted to have Gibbs brought to justice, but his mother justified Gibbs, and nothing was therefore done about it.  The affair took place in Upper Elkton, Tennessee, near the Alabama line.]

The following is from Mr. Knapp’s own lips, taken down a day or two since.

“Mr. Buster, with whom I boarded, in Limestone Co., Ala., related to me the following incident:  ’George a slave belonging to one of the estates in my neighborhood, was lurking about my residence without a pass.  We were making preparations to give him a flogging, but he escaped from us.  Not long afterwards, meeting a patrol which had just taken a negro in custody without a pass, I inquired, Who have you there? on learning that it was George, well, I rejoined, there is a small matter between him and myself that needs adjustment, so give me the raw hide, which I accordingly took, and laid 60 strokes on his back, to the utmost of my strength.’  I was speaking of this barbarity, afterwards, to Mr. Bradley, an overseer of the Rev. Mr. Donnell, who lives in the vicinity of Moresville, Ala., ‘Oh,’ replied he, ’we consider that a very light whipping here’ Mr. Bradley is a professor of religion, and is esteemed in that vicinity a very pious, exemplary Christian.’”

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM REV.  C. STEWART RENSHAW, of Quincy, Illinois, dated Jan. 1, 1839.

“I do not feel at liberty to disclose the name of the brother who has furnished the following facts.  He is highly esteemed as a man of scrupulous veracity.  I will confirm my own testimony by the certificate of Judge Snow and Mr. Keyes, two of the oldest and most respectable settlers in Quincy.

Quincy, Dec. 29, 1838”

“Dear Sir,—­We have been long acquainted with the Christian brother who has named to you some facts that fell under his observation while a resident of slave states.  He is a member of a Christian church, in good standing; and is a man of strict integrity of character.