Condition Of Slaves

Mrcssns Editoks: -Rcading in your paper of Feb. I3th, the articlo of Rev. B. Frazee, in which lie contra - dictcd the statements of Mr. Vest, vvith regard to the cnormitfes of American Slaverv, ï j thought that perhaps a relation ofsomc of the eceucs of which I have been an eyc witness, might not be out of place. I have lived'seven years in different parts of the Southern States, (but left there a number of ycars ago) and liad cvery opportunity to acquaint myself fully whh the condition and treatment of the slave population. I would f.irlhermorc state that three of th ose years were epent in the' village of Washington, Mississippi; the village lam informed weere Mr. Frazee passed a considerablo por tion of Ii is time. I have rcpeatedly scen negro childrcn of both sexes left enünly vakcd till they werc eleven or twclve ycars of age, with the e.vception of a littleclothing in the colder mönthV; and Ihis too m the housesof wrallhy planters; I have scen this not confined to one family or ncighborhood, but genera! throughout the country. I have often seen slaves with ihcir cais cropped, and slit, many with iheir tecth kno( ked out, and others that had been brnndcd with a hot iron. I have also frequently scen the pronged neck collars - the hounds for hunting runawaj slaves - the svhippings Lcc. - Fifty at a time I have seen whipped for not doing their task?. I mejition these horrid pracliccs, not for the sake of controversy, but to bear my testimony to the drcadful effects ofblavery.Pilísiiclt!, Wushtenaw Co. Fcb. 17th 1813.