e who had run away was caught, and was beaten
for a long time, and melted turpentine was then poured upon his wounds.
He lingered for several hours. But the horror and execration which this
deed met with were no greater at the North than at the South. It cannot
be denied that slavery, as well as marriage, affords peculiar
provocations and facilities for cruel deeds,--according to the doctrine
of your friend and fellow-Sophomore. But in which section there is the
more of unpunished wickedness, I am slow to pronounce, for I do not wish
to condemn my own people, nor to justify others in their sins. An
excellent minister in Cincinnati not long since preached a sermon on
murder, in which he stated that "during his residence in that city,
there had been more than one hundred murders, or an average of two a
month, while in no instance had the perpetrator been executed." Reading
lately of a husband at the North throwing oil of vitriol from a bottle,
filled for the purpose, over his wife's face and neck, and of a Northern
clergyman feeding his young wife, as she sat on his knee, with apple on
which he had sprinkled arsenic, I questioned whether human nature were
not about the same everywhere. The theoretical right of a master, in
certain cases, to put his slave to death, without judge or jury, is
controlled by the self-interest of the owner who, of course, does not
recklessly destroy his own property. The slave-codes are no just
exponent of the actual state of things in slavery. For example,--by law
a master may not furnish his slave with less than a peck of corn a week.
This has a barbarous look. But to see the slaves feasting on the fat of
the land you certainly would not be reminded of the "peck of corn,"
except by contrast. There must be some legal standard, below which if
an inhuman master falls in providing for his servant, he can be
prosecuted. Hence the "peck of corn." By the will of an eminent citizen
at the North, establishing courses of lectures for all coming time, the
pay of each
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.