a year.  During this time she committed some slight offence, for which the defendant undertook to chastise her.  After doing so he shot at her as she was running away.  The question then arose, was he justified in using that amount of coercion? and whether the privilege of shooting was not confined to the actual proprietor?  The case was argued at some length, and the court, in pronouncing judgment, began by deploring that any judge should ever be called upon to decide such a case, but he had to administer the law, and not to make it.  The judge said, ’With whatever reluctance, therefore, the court is bound to express the opinion, that the dominion over a slave in Carolina has not, as it has been argued, any analogy with the authority of a tutor over a pupil, of a master over an apprentice, or of a parent over a child.  The court does not recognize these applications.  There is no likeness between them.  They are in opposition to each other, and there is an impassable gulf between them.  The difference is that which exists between freedom and slavery—­[Hear, hear!]—­and a greater difference cannot be imagined.  In the one case, the end in view is the happiness of the youth, born to equal rights with the tutor, whose duty it is to train the young to usefulness by moral and intellectual instruction.  If they will not suffice, a moderate chastisement maybe administered.  But with slavery it is far otherwise.’  Mark these words, for they contain the whole thing.  But with slavery it is far otherwise.  The end is the profit of the master, and the poor object is one doomed, in his own person, and in his posterity, to live without knowledge, and without capacity to attain any thing which he may call his own.  He has only to labor, that another may reap the fruits.’ [Hear, hear!] Mark! this is from the sacred bench of justice, pronounced by one of the first intellects in America!  ’There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect; the power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect. [Hear, hear!] It is inherent in the relation of master and slave;’ and then he adds those never-to-be-forgotten words, ’We cannot allow the right of the master to come under discussion in the courts of justice.  The slave must be made sensible that there is no appeal from his master, and that his master’s power is in no instance usurped; that these rights are conferred by the laws of man, at least, if not by the law of God.’ [Loud cries of ‘Shame, shame!’] This is the mode in which we are to regard these two classes of beings, both created by the same God, and both redeemed by the same Savior as ourselves, and destined to the same immortality!  The judgment, on appeal, was reversed; but, God be praised; there is another appeal, and that appeal we make to the highest of all imaginable courts, where God is the judge, where mercy is the advocate, and where unerring truth will pronounce the decision![Protracted cheering.] There are some who are pleased to tell us that there