But, the only point which the preacher made, was that one in favor of religion.

When it could so support a nigger, what might it not do for one of the superior race?
For months I saw every day a boy who could not have been more than ten years old, but who seemed to be eight, and who wore an iron collar with four projections, and a hoop or bail up over his head.

This had been put on him for the crime of running away; and was kept on to prevent a repetition of that crime.

The master, who thus secured his property, was an Elder in the Second Presbyterian church, and led the choir.
The principal Baptist preacher owned and hired out one hundred slaves; took them himself to the public mart, and acted as auctioneer in disposing of their services.

The time at which this was done, was in the Christmas holidays, or rather the last day of the year, when the slaves' annual week of respite ended.
A female member of the Fourth St.Methodist church was threatened with discipline, for nailing her cook to the fence by the ear with a ten-penny nail.