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PRINCIPLE

e common Father of all; hence every human being has an indefeasible right to live upon it and to

triotism can release him from this state of destitution, because it is a logical result of the relation in which he is placed by the slave code. Being himself a chattel, whatever he acquires or in any way gains possession of, is, as a matter of course, the ac

hey may acquire, belongs in point of law to their masters." (Stroud.) "S

that? Reason and justice would answer, it belonged to the black veteran and his heirs forever. But the heirs of Frederick's old master understood something about slave law, and brought the case into court that it might be legally determined who owned the bounty land. After much learned argument, Judge

slavery might have been mitigated in practice, it ought to have been in the case of this veteran soldier." But the "pound of flesh" was ex

enius which presides at all times over legislation for slaves is very careful to permit nothing to be enacted, unless from absolute necessity, that can be construed into an acknowledgment that the slave is a man

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perform his part." (Wheeler.) "One principle prevails in all the States * * and th

e promise had been partly complied with. The court proceeded upon the principle that it was not competent to a court in Chancery to enf

long sighed, he endures incredible hardships, toils night after night, and, at the end of many weary years, lays before his master a part or the whole of the price agreed upon. Now when this is done, the master may, in perfect accordance with American slave law, pocket the hard-earned money and sell the slave to the next trader, or keep him until death in his own service. If the s

condition that Sam would pay him out of his earnings, a stipulated sum per annum, we believe, about $100. The surplus, whatever it might be, was to belong to the slave. Sam was punctual for several years. He was sober and industrious, and in his humble way, very prosperous. About

The case was yesterday decided by the Hon. Judge Pryor, in favor of P

ize but two modes of liberating slaves

lave cannot m

y, and at the time fixed for the ne

ter was entitled to his services, and the mone

. His Honor characterized the case as one of great "hardship and cruelty," an

F. D. Gage the following circumstance, whi

was a kinder man than other men, and gave her the privilege of buying her freedom for one thousand dollars! This sum the old and faithful creature earned and paid herself. Only think of it!-one thousand dollars for the privilege of

this for them. You work to clothe, to school and make comfortable those dependent upon your care; but which of you can meas

nd, and work on her own hook-paying him so much per month. Three hundred dollars has been paid. Some time in April, this oppressed class had a public tea-party and fair, to gather funds to furnish their church, a neat edifice on -- St. The mot

mber of ---- Church." But no sooner had the owner of Susan, the wife, heard of George's death, than he hurried to the city

less; and the young wife, but yesterday rejoicing in the strength and hope of freedom and love, sudd

happen inquir

r a long time, for they had got them a home, and she did not wash any more. I asked her what had happened, and she told me all. O! Mr

I know there is a good God, and a Jesus, or I should give up in despair, an

nst the avarice of his master? Let us see. A law of South Carolina provides that slaves

rk by day-light. The time for breakfast is between nine and ten o'clock. This meal is sometimes eaten 'bite and w

na the legal standard is one barrel of Indian corn-or the equivalent thereof in rice, beans or other grain, and a pi

ot there the means of comfortable rest, but on the cold ground

night, are inadequate either for comfort or decency,

cially, are miserably fed, clothed and lodged, and dur

at the testimony of a slave against a white person cannot be received in a court of justice. A slave woman who may be abused cannot resort to the law. To

the round sum of seven thousand dollars! An ugly old bachelor, named Gouch, was the purchaser. The Picayune says that she was r

LLARS! She was bought for a sacrifice to lust! And the law gave her no protection. It requi

master in a violent passion may fall upon his slave, and beat him unme

ssault and battery committed upon

ev. J. Boucher, relates

him. Presently the doctor took a rawhide from under his coat, and began to cut up the half-naked back of the slave. I saw six or seven inches of the skin turn up perfectly white at every stroke, till the whole back was red with gore. The lacerated man cried out some at first; but at every blow the doctor cried, 'won't ye hush? won't ye hush?' till the slave fin

ting might have been repeated every week until death had come to his relief, and the poor wr

is always liable to great abuses. But when all sorts of men are invested with it, when it can be purchased with money, terrible beyond conception are its results. Woe

the slightest provocation, any kind of torture, which can be endured

and with a keen lash lay on his bare back until the blood runs in a stream to his heels. The laws not only allow this to be done, but it is done continually. Women, yes, tender, delicate women;

d, and to which many slaves are brought by their masters to be whipped, for wh

which he applied with dreadful power and wonderful precision. Every stroke brought away a strip of skin, which clung to the lash, or fell quivering on the pavement, while the blood followed after it. The poor creature writhed and shrieked, and in a voice which showed alike her fear of death and her dreadful agony, screamed to her master, who stood at her head, 'O, spare my life! don't cut my soul out!' But still fell the horrid lash; still strip after strip peeled off from the skin; gash after gash was cut in her living flesh, until it became a livid and bloody mass of raw and quivering muscle. It was with the greatest difficulty I refrained from springing upon the torturer, and arresting his lash; but, alas! what could I do, but turn aside and hide my t

courts of justice. The slave, to remain a slave, must be made sensible that there is NO APPEAL FROM HIS MASTER." The same Judge decid