Selections: Letter To Gerrit Smith From One Of His East Tenn...

Greenvu-lk. E. Tejí. June 18, IS 12. When I wrote you lnst nt there was ! avery considerable revival of religión there, j though atteixicd witli some oxcitement j liarlo theSouthein popuJation. There wns j npparenily nnich sincerity and sincero devotion. This nvvnkeningf continúes, so lliai in the county eomething over 150 have been ndded to the hurchos. All this for a tkne appeared Veil. Among thosc who hud joined the church rns Mr. P. of . I hnd n corner ¦ fotion wilh him in which he expre?sed his lïrm belief thatit as a real work - the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit. In a letter of Jast yearyou may recollect tliat I mentioned lilis same man as one who ?o!d his cnlored woman to a man from North Carolina, followed him and rëcloirnfid her. In öealing in slavos, he appeared lo have no remorso of conscience ! --in punishing he wasBaid to be cruel. I j ped, as he had now become a mcmber of the thurcb, he would most sincerely and heartly repent of the enorrnous sins. Un Thursday last, in the aftcrnoon I wap in ¦ -Mra. the lady of the Methodist : clergvman in town (her hwsband wos ab.sent) told me that, in the mornino-, Mr. " P. ¦ I had ticd up a colored woman , tho property of his father-in luw - stripped her to llip wuist and whipped her with a heavy qv-skin- they upposed about two hundrcd stripes. Slie said her back was cut to pieceB- the blood ran freely dowti her person and was on him. - Her screams were heard all over the viilage. Hr crime was for having made pome severe remarles because of the whipping of her luis- band a dnys "before by the same man. and who wns cut equally bnd in the upper part of bis body. It was snpposcil, t hat he infiicteil more tha two hmiured stripes upon him.- Mr.--, the faiher-in law of and owner of theslavpp, did not inierfere to prevent if, yet he loo bas been a long time a lending menvber of the Methodist church. Tliere was a large meetinor a few mi les out, so that there were probablv but few mon in the villago at the time. Why they did not biterfere, I do not know. The mátter occasioncd excitement and will come befare the church. Eitherh must be exprlled from the church or many will withdraw. Tliis goot] lady, wlsoee piety geems to be bevond doubt, Inments these deplorable evilawith which the church is distract'd. Such instances of cruelty occur in the clnirch too often. Sometimes tJie maeter is expelled.at others, he isable to süeiice al! interferenco the matter is fuished up, nnd those, who are wounded, withdraw. In this way the Southern church is distracted. The more eñliglitcned, who mnurn over these evils, say there is no hope for ihem to maintoin the peace and purity of the church hut separate itentirely. Unless this should be done, tiie prospecta of tbe Southern church nre deplorable indeed. ín a late letter, T mcnlioned the case of n runaway siave brlonginor to a Mr. . A few days sinco I met wifh Mr. - - and inquired if bis slave had returncd. He said, no - that he was still lying out. That lie had tent wordto hini, both to his wife and mothsr, sitice he had sent by me, to his mother - that ifhe would return he should not be punished in the least - that hc ihoujht litm extremely unreasonable when he had sent him word bo often, thal he would still refu-e to return - had aJways endeavored to treat him kimJLy- that he was now unprateful for it all, and he had no doubt suffered moréthan he would at work. Of all the slaveholders I have known, this man was one of the most kind - I ir.ay euvconscientious, hnniane, and mild . Me thoucrht they wonld be lïnwiHing to leave him. Tlie lave too was a man of good sensp. He rensoned no doubt diftercnily. He was living with a maTi of fra.il constitution, Hable to be taken away at nny limo - lie vvould be sold - no part of hts eamir.gs would accrne to him - that by goingr off he mifrht have his own earnings, nnd possibly be able utliriiDtely to buy his wife and chüdren, and then live fearless of being sold as chattels It'was about the third weekin November, when three men came from New ïork to my lnnds. Thenitrht before they reached me, tbey loded with my friend - - - ; and as he vras in the evening huskingr out a large pile of corn, they proffered thoir assistance. This nero sat on one side of these men, a youii man trom the country on the othor, who rnquired minutely about their journey. They bnd come on by way of The Oliio to Maysville, Ky. The youngr innn cnquired about thedom oc coloreo persons m the state of New York - their rights ihere and in Canar a. To all which the negro gave ihe best attention, and in a few days after wns off. The afiected intoxication - the insolent langunge to his mistress, was probably all affected to give an impreasion that he left on that account and would eoon return. I have no doubt he went direct to the Free States. Notwithsianding ihe deplorable infliience of ilavery, we have some causo for rejoicing. - Tbe great reibrmation jiow in progress in the eoiith - the ternperaijce coupe - agloing wondere. In this county, more have signrtl the pledge of total abstinence than there are legal votera. In Cork cunt.y,the reformaron isnow in progres?. I shnuld think that 9-10fhs of the whole population of thecnunty would sign the piedle. I believe thee is no der, Ier there in the poison, and 1 know of no distiüer there. Some of our good people think that this is oneof the great reformations exppcted at the approacli of the Millenium. I hopo greatgood may result from it. Yeara since, this great work began at the Nortb. Byand by, it came south. We have indications, that the antiBlavery reformation is coming too. During the last fall and winter, 84 are said have benn liberated, to go to África from E. Ten. There are more, who are protnised their freedom to go a nother year. For years my impressions have been against the coloniizitinn eocieiy - perhops thoir movemente may be overruled for pood. By givinar their elavrs thcir fieedom, a change is manifested in the public 6entiment. There was in this county an old gentleman by the name of who gave his slaves their freedom at his death, about thirty in number. His will was contested on the ground of his being in an unsonnd state of mind at the time he made it. The trial occnpied this crurt a week - and the Jury dccided on sustaining the will. His claves were to be sent to a free state with some property. %