“You will naturally inquire, why I meddle with your family affairs.  My answer is, the cause of humanity and a sense of my duty requires it.—­these hasty remarks I leave you to reflect on the subject; but wish you to remember, that there is an all-seeing eye who knows all our faults and will reward us according to our deeds.

I remain, sir, yours, &c

JACOB DUNHAM. 
Master of the brig Cyrus, of N.Y.”

Rev. SYLVESTER COWLES, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Fredonia, N.Y. says:—­

“A young man, a member of the church in Conewango, went to Alabama last year, to reside as a clerk in an uncle’s store.  When he had been there about nine months, he wrote his father that he must return home.  To see members of the same church sit at the communion table of our Lord one day, and the next to see one seize any weapon and knock the other down, as he had seen, he could not live there.  His good father forthwith gave him permission to return home.”

The following is a specimen of the shameless hardihood with which a professed minister of the Gospel, and editor of a religious paper, assumes the right to hold God’s image as a chattel.  It is from the Southern Christian Herald:—­

“It is stated in the Georgetown Union, that a negro, supposed to have died of cholera, when that disease prevailed in Charleston, was carried to the public burying ground to be interred; but before interment signs of life appeared, and, by the use of proper means, he was restored to health.  And now the man who first perceived the signs of life in the slave, and that led to his preservation, claims the property as his own, and is about bringing suit for its recovery.  As well might a man who rescued his neighbor’s slave, or his horse, from drowning, or who extinguished the flames that would otherwise soon have burnt down his neighbor’s house, claim the property as his own.”

Rev. GEORGE BOURNE, of New York city, late Editor of the “Protestant Vindicator,” who was a preacher seven years in Virginia, gives the following testimony.[39]

“Benjamin Lewis, who was an elder in the Presbyterian church, engaged a carpenter to repair and enlarge his house.  After some time had elapsed, Kyle, the builder, was awakened very early in the morning by a most piteous moaning and shrieking.  He arose, and following the sound, discovered a colored woman nearly naked, tied to a fence, while Lewis was lacerating her.  Kyle instantly commanded the slave driver to desist.  Lewis maintained his jurisdiction over his slaves, and threatened Kyle that he would punish him for his interference.  Finally Kyle obtained the release of the victim.

“A second and a third scene of the same kind occurred, and on the third occasion the altercation almost produced a battle between the elder and the carpenter.