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Show Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. · tl e t 1· o· 11orth -who ·were tryi11o· to get their over 111 1 b ' . . . freedorn for thcnl. orne bclie-re that t!1c. abohtr~1ust have already 111ade them free, and that rL 1 e .. tabl1:heu by law, but that their masters preYent the la\v from go1. ng" 1.1 1 to e{'fiect · One WOlnan beg-ge. d lne to o·ct a el. n11new pap cl 1·cnd it over. She srud h er hu band <-" "~ told her that the black people had ~cnt \v~orcl to Lhc queen of '~fcrica that they \Vere all . .-la.Yes ; . that she didn't believe it, and went to \Vaslungton ctty to co the pre idcnt about it. They quarrelled; ·he drew her sword upon him, and swore that he should help her to n1ake the1n all free. That poor, ignorant \Von1an thought that luncrica was governed by a Queen, to whon1 the Pre ·idcnt was subordinate. I wish the President was subonlinatc to Queen J usticc. Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders. 71 I --' . SKE'rCIIE OF NEIGIIDOni G SL1\ \TEfiOLDERS. THERT~ was a planter in the country, not far frmn us, wh01u I will call ~Ir. Litch. II e \Vas an ill-hrecl, uneducated 1nan, but very \Ycalthy. lie had six hundred slave , 1nany of \vho1n he <lid not know by ·ight. IIis extensive plantation \Vas nutnagcd by \veil-paid overseers. There \Vas a jail an(l a whipping po .. t on his grounds ; aud whatever cruelties \YOre perpetrated there, they pa c<l \Vithout conuncnt. lie \vas . 0 clfoctually screened by his great \vealth that he \vas called. to no account for his cri1nos, not even for 1nurder. Various were the pnni ·lnnent , resorted to. A favorite one was to tic a rope round. a 1uan'~ body, and suspend him fro1n the ground. A fire \Vas kincllod O\Cr hi1n, frotn \vhich was su. ponded a piece of fat pork. A· thi · cookocl, the scalding drops of fat continually fell on the bare flesh. On his own plantation, he required very strict obedience to the eighth conltnandtncn t. But depredation on the neighbors were allowable, provid.cd the cnl1Jrit 1nana(o)' ecl to evade <le-tection or su pieion. If a n eighbor brought a charge of theft again t any of his .-laves, he wa · browbeaLcn by the 1naster, \vho assured hin1 that hi .- .-laYe · ha<..l cuough of every thing at hon1e, and hacl no inc1ncen1ent to steal. No oouer \vas the neighbor's back turned, than the accused \vas sought ont, and whjpped |