Any thing like religious feeling among the slaves irritated him.

He said that so much praying and singing prevented the people from doing their tasks, as it kept them up nights, when they should be asleep.

He used to mock, and in every possible way interrupt the poor slaves, who after the toil of the day, knelt in their lowly cabins to offer their prayers and supplications to Him whose ear is open to the sorrowful sighing of the prisoner, and who hath promised in His own time to come down and deliver.

In his drunken seasons he would make excursions at night through the slave-quarters, enter the cabins, and frighten the inmates, especially if engaged in prayer or singing.

On one of these occasions he came back rubbing his hands and laughing.