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72, testify their apprehensions on the subject. Happy, indeed! Who can describe the sufferings of parents, for ever bereft of their children; mothers robbed of their daughters; children torn from their parents; young women, and married women, exposed to the brutal lusts of Slave-drivers, masters, and overseers. Millions doomed to insult; deprived of opportunities to read God's Word; to attend upon His worship; to instruct their children; and taunted for their religious principles. Advocates for Slavery, would you be happy under such circumstances, certainly not, then think not that others can be. The Day of Judgment only will disclose those registered wrongs, which the coloured men, women, and children, are the victims, in the Slave States.

The facts I narrate of the sorrows of the downtrodden Negroes, may be considered exaggerations by the ignorant and unfeeling, but surely not by the Recording Angel, who drops a tear at every record made. Nor can they be by the compassionate Saviour, who tells their wanderings, puts their tears into his bottle, and writes them in his Book of Remembrance.

The following letter is from The New York Daily Times, written by a person who visited the Dismal Swamps, the celebrity of which has gone, far and wide, as the habitation for runaway Slaves: