TESTIMONY OF A CLERGYMAN. 
  Natchez;
  ‘Lie down,’ for whipping;
  Slave-hunting;
  ‘Ball and chain’ men;
  Whipping at the same time, on three plantations;
  Hours of Labor;
  Christians slave-hunting;
  Many runaway slaves annually shot;
  Slaves in the stocks;
  Slave branding.

CONDITION OF SLAVES. 
  Slavery is unmixed cruelty;
  Fear the only motive of slaves;
  Pain is the means, not the end of slave-driving;
  Characters of Slave drivers and Overseers, brutal, sensual, and
    violent;
  Ownership of human beings utterly destroys their comfort.

OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED: 

I. Such cruelties are incredible. 
  Slaves deemed to be working animals, or merchandize; and called
    ‘Stock,’ ‘Increase,’ ‘Breeders,’ ‘Drivers,’ ‘Property,’ ’Human
    cattle’;
  Testimony of Thomas Jefferson;
  Slaves worse treated than quadrupeds;
  Contrast between the usage of slaves and animals;
  Testimony;
  Northern incredulity discreditable to consistency;
  Religious persecutions;
  Recent ‘Lynchings,’ and Riots, in the United States;
  Many outrageous Felonies perpetrated with impunity;
  Large faith of the objectors who ‘can’t believe’;
  ‘Doe faces,’ and ‘Dough faces’;
  Slave-drivers acknowledge their own enormities;
  Slave plantations in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi ’second only
    to hell’;
  Legislature of North Carolina;
  Incredulity discreditable to intelligence;
  Abuse of power in the state, and churches;
  Legal restraints;
  American slaveholders possess absolute power;
  Slaves deprived of the safe guards of law;
  Mutual aversion between the oppressor and the slave;
  Cruelty the product of arbitrary power;
  Testimony of Thomas Jefferson;
  Judge Tucker;
  Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina, and Georgia;
  General William H. Harrison;
  President Edwards;
  Montesquieu;
  Wilberforce;
  Whitbread;
  Characters.

OBJECTION II.—­“Slaveholders protest that they treat their slaves well.” 
  Not testimony but opinion;
  ‘Good treatment’ of slaves;
  Novel form of cruelty.

OBJECTION III.—­“Slaveholders are proverbial for their kindness, and generosity.” 
  Hospitality and benevolence contrasted;
  Slaveholders in Congress, respecting Texas and Hayti;
  ‘Fictitious kindness and hospitality.’

OBJECTION IV.—­“Northern visitors at the south testify that the slaves are not cruelly treated.” 
  Testimony;
  ‘Gubner poisened’;
  Field-hands;
  Parlor slaves;
  Chief Justice Durell.

OBJECTION V.—­“It is for the interest of the masters to treat their slaves well.” 
  Testimony;
  Rev. J.N.  Maffitt;
  Masters interest to treat cruelly the great body of the slaves;
  Various classes of slaves;
  Hired slaves;
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