rich and extensive plain of the Cape,-together with the contiguous mountains, were now wholly abandoned to the ravages of the enemy, and the cruelties which they exercised on such of the miserable whites as fell into their hands can not be remembered without horror, nor reported in terms strong enough to convey a proper idea of their atrocity.

THE HORRORS INCREASE-WHITE MEN SAWED ASUNDER.

They seized Mr. Blen, an officer of the police, and having nailed him alive to one of the gates of his plantation, chopped off his limbs, one by one, with

an ax.

A poor man named Roberts, a carpenter by trade, endeavoring to conceal himself from the notice of the rebels, was discovered in his hiding-place. The savages declared he should die in the way of his occupation. Accordingly they bound him between two boards, and deliberately sawed him asunder.

Monsieur Cardineau, a planter of Grand Riviere, had two natural sons by a black woman. He had manumitted them in infancy, and bred them up with great tenderness. They both joined in the revoltand when their father attempted to divert them from their purpose by soothing language and pecuniary consideration, they took his money and then stabbed him to the heart.

All the white, and even the mulatto children whose fathers had not joined in the revolt, were murdered without exception, frequently before the eyes or clinging to the bosoms of their mothers. Young women of all ranks were first violated by a whole troop of

barbarians, and then generally put to death. Some of them were indeed reserved for the further gratification of the lust of the savages, and others had their eyes scooped out with a knife.

DAUGHTERS RAVISHED IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR

FATHERS.

In the parish of Limbe, at a place called the Great Ravine, a venerable planter, the father of two beauful young ladies, was tied down by a savage ringleader of a band, who ravished his eldest daughter in his presence, and delivered over the other to one of his followers. Their passion being satisfied, they murdered both the father and the daughters.

In the frequent skirmishes between the foraging parties sent out by the negroes (who, after having burned every thing, were in scarcity of provisions,) and the whites, the rebels seldom stood their ground longer than to receive and return one single volley; but they appeared again the next day, and though they were at length driven out of their intrenchments with infinite slaughter, yet their numbers seemed not to diminish. As soon as one body was cut off another appeared, and thus they succeeded in harassing and destroying the whites by perpetual fatigue, and by reducing the country to a desert."

TWO THOUSAND PERSONS MASSACRED.

To detail the various conflicts, skirmishes, massacres and scenes of slaughter, which this exterminating war produced, were to offer a disgusting and frightful picture-a combination of horrors, wherein we should behold cruelties unexampled in the annals of man

kind; human blood poured forth in torrents; the earth blackened with ashes, and the air tainted with pestilence. It was computed that within two months after the revolt first began, upwards of two thousand white persons, of all conditions, had been massacred; that one hundred and eighty sugar plantations, and about nine hundred coffee, cotton and indigo settlements had been destroyed-the buildings thereon being consumed by fire-and twelve hundred Christian families reduced from opulence to such a state of misery as to depend altogether for their clothing and sustenance on public and private charity! Of the insurgents it was reckoned that upward of ten thousand had perished by the sword or by famine, and some hundreds by the hand of the executioner!

In our judgment, with the desire to exercise common sense in thought and action, there is no subject so sacred; there is no man so holy or devout in appearance; there is no body of men so high; there is no act so binding; and there is no power so commanding; that each should not be brought home to reason, cool and deliberate reason; and if good or bad in their tendencies, let the world know it, for their approbation or disapprobation!

In principle and in faith, we are no secessionists; neither are we in spirit or in fact; nor are we the least tinctured with Abolition doctrines, believing that both of these doctrines, in spirit and in fact, would destroy the best form of government ever devised by man for his prosperity and happiness; but we are strict and literal conformists to the Constitution of

the United States, without the right of invading on reserved rights and old and established usages.

If we are the means of creating a being, such as human, or instrumental, for the preservation of our lives and property, and to ensure the pursuit of happiness, it is natural for that being, let it be in any form, to struggle for life, using all its vital powers, and to sell all it has as dear as possible, according to constitutional powers. Otherwise, it subverts its own principles, and becomes the basis of anarchy and tyranny. The subjects which engross our pen in this dissertation are ones of the most vital importance to the well-being of the South in their onward prosperity and happiness; and if the South is not prosperous and progressive, can the East, or West, or North be prosperous and progressive for any time to come? Let men of reason and good common sense act on these suggestive hints, and do away with isms and impracticabilities, and we shall have an America united, and proud as the eagle in her bearing, to that point of national distinction, which places at defiance the world besides! hear hear!

In this dissertation, it occurs to us that we have clearly defined our constitutional sentiments, which are with those fathers whose geniuses reasoned from cause to effect, and from effect to cause, in the happy blending together of their political sentiments in order to have formed that noble and God-like compact, which has nearly borne us down, most majestically and magnificently, to this period of time. Certainly this grand march towards progress in then a wilderness must have received the acquiescence of a "Deity

believed," or we should not have beheld his smiles and approbations, manifested in every department of life, as well in agriculture as in the arts, as well in commerce as in the sciences. Little is known in history with reference to the subject of slavery running into prejudices and isms till the period of the American Revolution, though the Quakers, as a sect, have ever been opposed to it, and consequently opposed to the organic order of creation, as related by Moses in the first chapter of Genesis. Isms had not then begun to grow on the subject to any extent; for the slave trade was fully open, and the Northerners made large profits in that most lucrative commerce, in the form of carriers; and to far the greatest extent, they were the very purchasers and sellers of what now thousands of their descendants unite in saying that it is a foul curse upon the nation! A curse brought on by whom? It is ever a pleasant reflection to think of progress and intelligence, and to see these two twin brothers of charity and benevolence rise into being and grow into manhood. It has been exceedingly pleasant for us to have contemplated as we have thus far in our work, the natural and astonishing development of the progress and intelligence of the American people; though these attributes of the highest order, as espied from the creation, are contemplated and possessed by few; therefore, we cannot call that man or woman progressive and intelligent who cannot comprehend any more than the ordinary branches of an education. They only possess the means of advancing, and become progressive and intelligent only insomuch as they do advance into