The other, horrified by the contortions and agony of his comrade, dropped his noose, and was retaken.

When discovered, two or three days afterwards, the body of Jacob was dreadfully torn and mangled, by the buzzards, those winged hyenas and goules of the Southwest.
Among the slaves who were brought from Virginia, were two young and bright mulatto women, who were always understood throughout the plantation to have been the daughters of the elder Larrimore, by one of his slaves.

One was named Sarah and the other Hannah.

Sarah, being in a state of pregnancy, failed of executing her daily allotted task of hoeing cotton.

I was ordered to whip her, and on my remonstrating with the overseer, and representing the condition of the woman, I was told that my business was to obey orders, and that if I was told "to whip a dead nigger I must do it." I accordingly gave her fifty lashes.