fice at Washington, killed one of the slaves upon his
father's farm by shooting him.  The letter states that
young Matthews had been left in charge of the farm;
that he gave an order to the servant, which was dis-
obeyed, when he proceeded to the house, ~obtained
a gun, and, returning, shot the servant.~  He immedi-
ately, the letter continues, fled to his father's resi-
dence, where he still remains unmolested."--Let it
never be forgotten, that no slaveholder or overseer
can be convicted of any outrage perpetrated on the
person of a slave, however diabolical it may be, on
the testimony of colored witnesses, whether bond
or free.  By the slave code, they are adjudged to be
as incompetent to testify against a white man, as
though they were indeed a part of the brute creation.
Hence, there is no legal protection in fact, whatever
there may be in form, for the slave population; and
any amount of cruelty may be inflicted on them
with impunity.  Is it possible for the human mind
to conceive of a more horrible state of society?

 

  The effect of a religious profession on the conduct
of southern masters is vividly described in the fol-
lowing Narrative, and shown to be any thing but
salutary.  In the nature of the case, it must be in
the highest degree pernicious.  The testimony of Mr.
DOUGLASS, on this point, is sustained by a cloud of
witnesses, whose veracity is unimpeachable.  "A slave-
holder's profession of Christianity is a palpable im-
posture.  He is a felon of the highest grade.  He is a
man-stealer.  It is of no importance what you put in
the other scale."

 

  Reader! are you with the man-stealers in sympathy
and purpose, or on the side of their down-trodden
victims?  If with the former, then are you the foe of
God and man.  If with the latter, what are you pre-
pared to do and dare in their behalf?  Be faithful,
be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every
yoke, and let the oppressed go free.  Come what may
--cost what it may--inscribe on the banner which
you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and po-
litical motto--"NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY!  NO
UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"

 

                 WM. LLOYD GARRISON
BOSTON, ~May~ 1, 1845.

 

 

                          LETTER

 

                FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ.

 

 

                  BOSTON, APRIL 22, 1845.

 

  My Dear Friend:

 

  You remember the old fable of "The Man and
the Lion," where the lion complained that he should
not be so misrepresented "when the lions wrote his-
tory."

 

  I am glad the time has come when the "lions
write history."  We have been left long enough to
gather the character of slavery from the involuntary
evidence of the masters.  One might, indeed, rest
sufficiently satisfied with what, it is evident, must
be, in general, the results of such a relation, with-
out seeking farther to find whether they have fol-
lowed in every instance.  Indeed, those who stare at
the half-peck of corn a week, and love to count the
lashes on the slave's back, are seldom the "stuff" out
of which reformers and abolitionists are to be made.
I remember that, in 1838, many were waiting for
the results of the West India experiment, before
they could come into our ranks.  Those "results" have
come long ago; but, alas! few of that number have
come with them, as converts.  A man must be dis-
posed to judge of emancipation by other tests than