When his plantation is put in order, he carries the delinquent home, abandons him to all the suggestions of despotick rage, and accepts a reward for his _honesty_.

The unhappy wretch is chained, scourged, tortured; and all this, because he obeyed the dictates of nature, and wanted to be free.

And who is there, that would not have done the same thing, in the same situation?
Who is there, that has once known the charms of liberty; that would not fly from despotism?
And yet, by the impious laws of the _receivers_, the absence[066] of six months from the lash of tyranny is--_death_.
But this law is even mild, when compared with another against the same offence, which was in force sometime ago, and which we fear is even now in force, in some of those colonies which this account of the treatment comprehends.

"Advertisements have frequently appeared there, offering a reward for the apprehending of fugitive slaves either alive or _dead_.

The following instance was given us by a person of unquestionable veracity, under whose own observation it fell.