illy Lee describe it:

"Lord! sir, if you could a seen it; de heat, and dust, and smoke. De
cannons flyin, and de shot a whizzin, and de dust a blowing, and de horses'
heels a kickin up, when all at onct master's horse fell under him. It
warn't shot--bless your soul, no. It drapped right down dead wid de heat.
Master he got up. I was scared when I see him and de horse go; but master
got up. He warn't hurt; couldn't hurt him.

"Master he got up, looked round at me. 'Billy,' says he, 'give me the other
horse, and you take care of the new saddle on this other poor fellow.'

"Did you ever hear de like?" added Billy Lee, "thinking of de saddle when
de balls was a flyin most in our eyes. But it's always de same wid master.
He thinks of every thing."

I agree with the humane jurist quoted by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The
worst use you can put a man to is to hang him." She thinks slavery is worse
still; but when "I think of every thing," I am forced to differ from her.

The most of our Southern slaves are happy, and kindly cared for; and for
those who are not, there is hope for the better. But when a man is hung up
by the neck until he is dead, he is done for. As far as I can see, there is
nothing that can be suggested to better his condition.

I have no wish to uphold slavery. I would that every human being that God
has made were free, were it in accordance with His will;--free bodily, free
spiritually--"free indeed!"

Neither do I desire to deny the evils of slavery, any more than I would
deny the evils of the factory system in England, or the factory and
apprenticeship system in our own country. I only assert the necessity of
the existence of slavery at present in our Southern States, and that, as a
general thing, the slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners
humane and kind.

I have lived a great deal at the North--long enough to see acts of
oppression and injustice there, which, were any one so inclined, might be
wrought into a "living dramatic reality."

I knew a wealthy family. All the labor of the house was performed by a
"poor relation," a young and delicate girl. I have known servants struck by
their employers. At the South I have never seen a servant struck, though I
know perfectly well such things are done _here_ and _everywhere_. Can we
judge of society by a few isolated incidents? If so, the learned professors
of New England borrow money, and when they do not choose to pay, they
murder the