master,) for the deep interest he took in trying to get me on in my
studies. We shall ever fondly and gratefully cherish the memory of our
endeared and departed friend, Mr. Estlin. We, as well as the
Anti-Slavery cause, lost a good friend in him. However, if departed
spirits in Heaven are conscious of the wickedness of this world, and
are allowed to speak, he will never fail to plead in the presence of
the angelic host, and before the great and just Judge, for down-trodden
and outraged humanity.

"Therefore I cannot think thee wholly gone;
The better part of thee is with us still;
Thy soul its hampering clay aside hath thrown,
And only freer wrestles with the ill.

"Thou livest in the life of all good things;
What words thou spak'st for Freedom shall not die;
Thou sleepest not, for now thy Love hath wings
To soar where hence thy hope could hardly fly.

"And often, from that other world, on this
Some gleams from great souls gone before may shine,
To shed on struggling hearts a clearer bliss,
And clothe the Right with lustre more divine.

"Farewell! good man, good angel now! this hand
Soon, like thine own, shall lose its cunning, too;
Soon shall this soul, like thine, bewildered stand,
Then leap to thread the free unfathomed blue."

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

In the preceding pages I have not dwelt upon the great barbarities
which are practised upon the slaves; because I wish to present the
system in its mildest form, and to show that the "tender mercies of the
wicked are cruel." But I do now, however, most solemnly declare, that
a very large majority of the American slaves are over-worked,
under-fed, and frequently unmercifully flogged.

I have often seen slaves tortured in every conceivable manner. I have
seen him hunted down and torn by bloodhounds. I have seen them
shamefully beaten, and branded with hot irons. I have seen them
hunted, and even burned alive at the stake, frequently for offences
that would be applauded if committed by white persons for similar
purposes.

In short, it is well known in England, if not all over the world, that
the Americans, as a people, are notoriously mean and cruel towards all
coloured persons, whether they are bond or free.

"Oh, tyrant, thou who sleepest
On a volcano, from whose pent-up wrath,
Already some red flashes bursting up,
Beware!"

Note: I have omitted the running heads [RUNNIN