and without allowing him an appeal to any one 

 who knew him, but, becaufe he ventured to 

 fay they were committing an error, had the 

 inhumanity to ftrike him with a force fufH- 

 cient to have frad:ured his flvull, and to threat- 

 en him with the further feverity of death, or 

 a dungeon, fhould he dare to exprefs only a/ooi 

 of difpleafure. 



What muft have been the feelings of this 

 injured man ? who, after being abufed and 

 mal-treated, was further put in fear of his life, 

 fhould he only permit nature to affume her 

 feat on his brow, — fhould the cruelty, pain, 

 and injuftice he had fuffered, only caufe a mark 

 of dlfapprobation to appear upon his counte- 

 nance ! But Nature, however profcribed, was 

 notto bereftrainedbyfuchcommand! While the 

 power of memory remains to me I can never- — 

 never forget the indignant, but hopelefs ex- 

 preffion of injury which overfpread the features 

 of this poor fiave, as he retired !— He felt ag- 

 grieved, aiicl. . v^rasccnfcious that he 



had no remedy,~no appeal 1 



