“A slave whom I loved for his kindness and the amiableness of his disposition, and who belonged to the family where I resided, happened to stay out fifteen minutes longer than he had permission to stay.  It was a mistake—­it was unintentional.  But what was the penalty?  He was sent to the house of correction with the order that he should have thirty lashes upon his naked body with a knotted rope!!! He was brought home and laid down in the stoop, in the back of the house, in the sun, upon the floor.  And there he lay, with more the appearance of a rotten carcass than a living man, for four days before he could do more than move.  And who was this inhuman being calling God’s property his own, and ruing it as he would not have dared to use a beast?  You may say he was a tiger—­one of the more wicked sort, and that we must not judge others by him. He was a professor of that religion which will pour upon the willing slaveholder the retribution due to his sin.

“We wish to mention another fact, which our own eyes saw and our own ears heard.  We were called to evening prayers.  The family assembled around the altar of their accustomed devotions.  There was one female slave present, who belonged to another master, but who had been hired for the day and tarried to attend family worship.  The precious Bible was opened, and nearly half a chapter had been read, when the eye of the master, who was reading, observed that the new female servant, instead of being seated like his own slaves, flat upon the floor, was standing in a stooping posture upon her feet.  He told her to sit down on the floor.  She said it was not her custom at home.  He ordered her again to do it.  She replied that her master did not require it.  Irritated by this answer, he repeatedly struck her upon the head with the very Bible he held in his hand.  And not content with this, he seized his cane and caned her down stairs most unmercifully.  He then returned to resume his profane work, but we need not say that all the family were not there.  Do you ask again, who was this wicked man? He was a professor of religion!!”

Rev. HUNTINGTON LYMAN, late pastor of the Free Church in Buffalo, New York, says:—­

“Walking one day in New Orleans with a professional gentleman, who was educated in Connecticut, we were met by a black man; the gentleman was greatly incensed with the black man for passing so near him, and turning upon him he pushed him with violence off walk into the street.  This man was a professor of religion.”

(And we add, a member, and if we mistake not an officer of the Presbyterian Church which was established there by Rev. Joel Parker, and which was then under his teachings-ED.)

Mr. EZEKIEL BIRDSEYE, a gentleman of known probity, in Cornwall, Litchfield county, Conn. gives the testimony which follows:—­