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37 his legs of his forehead; his been shot in the hind parts of with the whip. Apply to Robert Beasley, Macon, Ga."



is

marked on his back

Holes in the ears; scar on the forehead; shot in the legs, and Such are the tokens by which marks of the lash on the back !

a Slave-master proposes to identify his slave. And here is another advertisement, revealing Slave-masters It is from the National Intelligencer, pubin a different light. which I cite at the Capital ; and I confess the pain with lished

Of such an indecency in a journal of such respectability. it but editors; the of knowledge course, it appeared without the example is none the less an illustrative maid. She is just sixteen to was raised in a genteel family in Maryland and is now proposed simply because the owner has no further use for her. t>e sold, not for any fault, but attention." note directed to C. D., Gadsby's Hotel, will receive prompt

" For Sale

years of a°-e

—An accomplished and handsome lady's





A

A sated libertine,

in a land

where vice

is

legalized, could not

expose his victim with apter words. These two instances will illustrate a class.

In the recent work of Mr. Olmsted, a close observer and of traveler in the Slave States, which abounds in pictures truth, regard to evident and caution with expressed Slavery, will be found still another, confesses his experience

"

'

I

can

tell

where a Slave-master thus frankly

you how vou can break a nigger of running away,

certain,' said the

4 There was an old fellow I used to know in Georgia, that always Slave-master. would bind his knee If a nigger ran away, when he caught him, he cured his so then he'd take a pair of pincers, over a loe and fasten him so he couldn't stir him, that if he ever run and null one of his toe-nails out by the roots; and tell away again after that, away a°-ain he would pull out two of them ; and if he run He never so on, doubling each time. and them, of four out pull he'd tokfhim he Olmsted's Texas Jourthem.' to do it more than twice; it always cured

"—

had

ney, 105.

from the lips of a Slave-master, is had sought another, where the master, angry because his slave cut the tendons of to regain his God-given liberty, deliberately Like

this story,

which

his heel, thus horribly

is

maiming him

for life!

Their accumumanner, by the by a cloud of witnesses, and by the confession of Slave-

It is in vain that these instances are denied. lating number, authenticated in every possible press,

masters, stares us constantly in the face. And here we are brought again to the slave code, under the

which these and worse things may be done with complete impunity. Listen to the remarkable words of Chief

shelter of