nvenience it will be surpassed by few churches
in the Southern country.

On the plantation you might also see other things of great
interest. Here a negro is the overseer. Marriages are
regularly contracted. No negro is sold, except as a
punishment for bad behavior, and a dreaded one it is. None is
bought, save for the purpose of uniting families. Here you
will near no clanking of chains, no cracking of whips; (I
have never seen a blow struck on the estate,) and here last,
but not least, you will find a flourishing Temperance
Society, embracing almost every individual on the premises.
And yet the "Christianity of the South is a chain-forging, a
whip-plaiting, marriage discouraging, Bible-withholding
Christianity!"

I have confined myself to a single plantation. But I might
add many most interesting facts in regard to others, and the
state of feeling in general, but I forbear.

Yours, &c
A NEW ENGLAND MAN.

He would now connect the peculiar and local facts of the preceding
statement, with the whole community of slave holders, in the same
State, and show by competent and disinterested testimony, the real
and common state of things. The following extracts were from a letter
printed in the New York Observer, of July 25, 1835:

I have resided eight years in South Carolina, and have an
extensive acquaintance with the planters of the middle and
low country. I have seen much of slavery, and feel competent
to speak in regard to many facts connected with it.

What your correspondent has stated of the condition of one
plantation, is in its essential points a common case
throughout the whole circle of my acquaintance.

The negroes generally, in this State, are well fed, well
clothed, and have the means of religious instruction.
According to my best judgment, the work which a slave here is
required to do, amounts to about one third the ordinary labor
commonly performed by a New England farmer. A similar
comparison would hold true in regard to the labor of
domestics. In the family where I reside, consisting of nine
white persons, seven slaves are employed to do the work. This
is a common case.

In the village where I live, there are about four hundred
slaves, and they generally attend church. More than one
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