river, near at hand. On coming near the river, the
poor black man, who had been placed on horse-
back, behind one of these Georgia men, suddenly
broke loose, and leaping from the horse, plunged
headlong into the river, which he quickly swam
across, and, getting into the woods, escaped from
his inhuman pursuers. On this occasion, the agi-
tation of the poor wife and children was beyond
expression; and to silence the shrieks and cries of
this miserable family, these unprincipled men beat
them unmercifully; and the last with the poor
Negro man saw of this scene, as he fled into the
woods, was their beating his wife upon the head,
in the most brutal manner. To a person who has
not been an eye-witness to such scenes, it may ap-
pear incredible that transactions of so attrocious
nature, could occur under a form of government
like that of the United States; but the slavery of
the Negroes having long since been introduced,
the evil consequences resulting from it have not
yet been rooted out of the Southern States; where
a warm climate seems to have enervated both the
bodies and the mind of the white inhabitants. It
is, however, to the credit of the people of Pennsyl-
vania, and the States to the eastward and north-
ward of them, that almost every thing in their
power has been done, to induce their southern
neighbours to relinquish the infamous, and de-
basing system of personal slavery; and there can
be scarcely a doubt, if they persevere in their