“A BAPTIST CLERGYMAN in Laurens District, S.C.  WHIPPED HIS SLAVE TO DEATH, whom he suspected of having stolen about sixty dollars.  The slave was in the prime of life and was purchased a few weeks before for $800 of a slave trader from Virginia or Maryland.  The coroner, Wm. Irby, at whose house I was then boarding, told me, that on reviewing the dead body, he found it beat to a jelly from head to foot.  The master’s wife discovered the money a day or two after the death of the slave.  She had herself removed it from where it was placed, not knowing what it was, as it was tied up in a thick envelope.  I happened to be present when the trial of this man took place, at Laurens Court House.  His daughter testified that her father untied the slave, when he appeared to be failing, and gave him cold water to drink, of which he took freely.  His counsel pleaded that his death might have been caused by drinking cold water in a state of excitement.  The Judge charged the jury, that it would be their duty to find the defendant guilty, if they believed the death was caused by the whipping; but if they were of opinion that drinking cold water caused the death, they would find him not guilty!  The jury found him—­NOT GUILTY!”

Dr. JEREMIAH S. WAUGH, a physician in Somerville, Butler county, Ohio, testifies as follows:—­

“In the year 1825, I boarded with the Rev. John Mushat, a Seceder minister, and principal of an academy in Iredel county, N.C.  He had slaves, and was in the habit of restricting them on the Sabbath.  One of his slaves, however, ventured to disobey his injunctions.  The offence was he went away on Sabbath evening, and did not return till Monday morning.  About the time we were called to breakfast, the Rev. gentleman was engaged in chastising him for breaking the Sabbath.  He determined not to submit—­attempted to escape by flight.  The master immediately took down his gun and pursued him—­levelled his instrument of death, and told him, if he did not stop instantly he would blow him through.  The poor slave returned to the house and submitted himself to the lash; and the good master, while YET PALE WITH RAGE, sat down to the table, and with a trembling voice ASKED GOD’S BLESSING!”

The following letter was sent by Capt.  JACOB DUNHAM, of New York city, to a slaveholder in Georgetown, D.C. more than twenty years since: 

“Georgetown, June 13, 1815.

“Dear sir—­Passing your house yesterday, I beheld a scene of cruelty seldom witnessed—­that was the brutal chastisement of your negro girl, lashed to a ladder and beaten in an inhuman manner, too bad to describe.  My blood chills while I contemplate the subject.  This has led me to investigate your character from your neighbors; who inform me that you have caused the death of one negro man, whom you struck with a sledge for some trivial fault—­that you have beaten another black girl with such severity that the splinters remained in her back for some weeks after you sold her—­and many other acts of barbarity, too lengthy to enumerate.  And to my great surprise, I find you are a professor of the Christian religion!