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    killing a slavffin South Carolina is , if in the heat of p&ssitfn , 50 / . ; and for premeditated murder , 100 / . !! For the last offence , the murderer is rendered incapable of holding or receiving the profits of anyplace ; office or emolument , civil

    or military , within the state . The Negroes , ifguilty of murder or rebellion , are burnt to death , and within three or four years two have suffered that horrid puirishriient ! For common offences they are either flogged at home by their masters ot mistresses ^

    or sent to a place next the jail , called the Sugar House , where a man is employed to flog" them at the rate of a shilling" per dofceh lashes . I was told that a lady once complained of the grfcat expense she was at for flogging , and intended to contract with

    the man to flog her slaves by the year !" Mr . Lambert then presents his readers with an anecdote awfully characteristic of the oppressor and of the oppressed : cc Where the Africans are well treated , longevity is no stranger to their race . Several have lived to

    eighty , ninety , and one hundred years . In 1805 , a , Negro woman died at the age of 116 . I shall close this notice of the Negroes of South Carolina , with a remarkable instance of inviolable affection and heroic courage

    evinced in a Negro and his wife , who had been recently exported from Africa 3 and which took place when I was at Charleston . They had been separated and sold to two different persons in the city ; the man to Major B ., and the woman to Mr . D . For a

    few months they resided in Charleston , and the Major had often allowed the Lnan to visit his wife , which in some measure reconciled them to their separation . Bat his master wishing to employ him on his plantation ro the country ^ gave orders for his l ) eing sent away ! The Negro no

    sooner learned his destiny than he became desperate , and determined on as bold a scheme as the mind of man c puld conceive , and one that might v * e with the far-famed resolution of * he Roman Arria . He obtained leave ° * his master on the evening previous tyhja departure to take a last farewell of his wife . I know not what

    P ^ ed , af ; &ucl \ an affecting interview , >\ Mijft / supposed that he prevailed ° n her to die with him . rather than to

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    he separated from each other , and obliged 1 to pass their lives in miserable slavery . The next morning' they ; were both found dead , having strangled themselves with ropes ! The tiaiids of both were at liberty , so that there is no room to suppose that either had . not consented to die . The Charleston

    papers represented this transaction in a very dine rent light , being fearful of the consequences of such cm example among the Negroes , who ,, whatever their oppressors may say to the

    contrary , hare proved in innumerable instances that they are occasionally possessed of feeling's as sensitive and acute as their White brethren .

    And now , Mr . Editor , I must in justice add , that I have never yet met with an American who did not lament this dreadful evil of slavery , considering it an indelible blot on the banners of their liberty , triumphantly emblazoned throughout the world

    At my own table , within the last month , upon reproaching an intelligent Transatlantic Professor of Yale College , in Connecticut , with the prevalence of this accursed practice amongst their Southern districts — his reply was

    pointed and emphatic : " We owe it , Sir , to you , to the mother country !* " Then , " said I , " like the mother country , hasten to its extinetion , to its utter extermination . * ' The poet exultingly exclaims-

    —Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air , that moment they are free ; They touch our country , and their shackles fall ;

    That ' s noble , ami bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing ! The Corporation of London has just commemorated the fact , fixing up in their Common-Council Chamber a dust , by Chantrey , of Granville Sharp , who legally ascertained that the sable

    tons of Africa , landing on British soil , find it the region of freedom ! The chisel of the sculptor could not be more nobly employed , whilst the head of this distinguished philanthropist does honour to the first citjr in the world .

    Dr . Morse , in his American Geography , remarks , *\ There is not a more ridiculous object in'jtfic universe than a native of * tl ^ ic tJnit f jcl States , with a Declaration of the' lUqhts of

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    Slavery in the United States of America . 405

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/25/