with a cow hide. He then put a long chain, weighing twenty-five pounds, round my neck, and sent me into a field, into which he followed me with the cow hide, intending to set his slaves to flog me again. Knowing this, and dreading to suffer again in this way, I gave him the slip, and got out of his sight, he having stopped to speak with the other slave-holder."

"I got to a canal on the Catarba River, on the banks of which, and near to a lock, I procured a stone and a piece of iron, with which I forced the ring off my chain, and got it off, and then crossed the river, and walked about twenty miles, when I fell in with a slave-holder named Ballad, who had married the sister of Mr. Hammans. I knew that he was not so cruel as Mr. Gooch, and, therefore, begged of him to buy me. Mr. Ballad, who was one of the best planters in the neighbourhood, said, that he was not able to buy me, and stated that he was obliged to take me back to my master, on account of the heavy fine attaching to a man harbouring a slave. Mr. Ballad proceeded to take me back; as we came in sight of Mr. Gooch's, all the treatment that I had met with there came forcibly on my mind, the powerful influence of which is beyond description. On my knees with tears in my eyes, with terror in my countenance, and fervency in all my features, I implored Mr. Ballad to buy me, but he again refused, and I was taken back to my dreaded and cruel master. Having reached Mr. Gooch's, he proceeded to punish me. he did by first tying my wrists together and placing them over the knees, he then put a stick through, under my knees and over my arms, and having thus secured my arms, he proceeded to flog me, and gave me 500 lashes on my bare back. This may appear incredible, but the marks which they left at present remain on my body, a standing testimony to the truth of this statement of his severity. He then chained me down in a log-pen with a 40 lb. chain, and made me lie on the damp earth all night. In the morning after his breakfast, he came to me, and without giving me any breakfast, tied me to a large heavy barrow, which is usually drawn by a horse, and made me drag it to the cotton field for the horse to use in the field.

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"After this, though still determined in my own mind to escape, I stayed with him several months, during which he frequently flogged me, but not so severely as before related. During this time I had an opportunity for recovering my health, and using means to heal my wounds. My master's cruelty was not confined to me, it was his general conduct to all his slaves. I might relate many instances to substantiate this, but will confine myself to one or two. Mr. Gooch, it is proper to observe, was a member of a Baptist Church, called Black Jack Meeting House, in Cashaw county, which church I attended for several years, but was never inside. This is accounted for by the fact, that the coloured population are not permitted to mix with the white population. Mr. Gooch had a slave named Phil, who was a member of a Methodist church; this man was between seventy and eighty years of age; he was so feeble that he could not accomplish his tasks, for which his master used to chain him round the neck, and run him down a steep hill; this treatment he never relinquished to the time of his death.

In the subsequent stages of this narrative, after recording many of the revolting features of slavery, he effected his escape, never more to be retaken, and was recommended to some of the friends of the slave in Great Britain. The narrative is still for the benefit of the sufferer, that he may enjoy the advantages of an English education, and be in some future stage of life, serviceable to the interests of those of his fellow-creatures yet in a state of hopeless bondage.

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NATIONAL CONSISTENCY.

An American Exposition of Acts xvii. 26, " God hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth."

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RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON THE SUBJECT OF AMERICAN SLAVERY. At the Annual Meeting of the Bucks Association of Baptist Churches held at Chenies, May 11, 1837, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :— That the members of this Association feel unabated anxiety for the speedy abolition of slavery in the United States of America, and again affectionately and strongly urge upon their brethren in that country the duty of exerting all their influence for the removal of so great an evil; at the same time expressing a fervent hope, that on no occasion, and by no party, carnal passions may be substituted for those spiritual weapons which are "mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds."

Resolutions of the South Devon and Cornwall Association of Baptist Churches, held in St. Austell, May 10 and 11, 1837.

May 11.-The sub-committee appointed to draw up resolutions on the subject of American Slavery, submitted the following, which were unanimously adopted.

I. That the principles and objects of the North American Anti-Slavery Society command the cordial approval of this Association.

II. That, as the inaugural address of the lately elected President of the United States manifestly tends to strengthen the pro-slavery interests in that country, and to discourage the friends of abolition, we feel ourselves called on to renew our decided testimony in behalf of the cause of justice, humanity, and freedom; and to beseech all our Christian brethren in America, to lend their consentaneous and undying efforts to the universal and total abolition of slavery in their own land, and throughout the world.

III. That copies of these resolutions be transmitted to the Editor of "Slavery in America," for insertion in that work.

Resolution of the Worcestershire Baptist Association.

"This Association embrace the present occasion afforded by this annual meeting to express their tender Christian sympathy with such of their Baptist brethren in America as are abolitionists, under the very trying circumstances in which they are placed. In thus renewing the expression of their good-will to their trans-atlantic brethren, they would take the liberty of reminding them that the American President is not the first who has issued his mandate, forbidding the disciples of Christ to speak any more in their Master's name; and that, in their belief, his high behest will prove equally futile with the fulminations of the Sanhedrim, and of the Vatican, with every other despotism, both ancient and modern. And this association assure their American brethren, that they will be borne on their hearts at a throne of grace, during the interesting and tremendous conflict in which they are engaged, till the great victory in the cause of truth and righteousness, peace and love, shall be achieved."