The unfortunate man would have been tried upon five other indictments, some of them still more atrocious than the one upon which he was found guilty; and his general character for barbarity was so notorious that no room was left for me even to deliberate. His victims have been numerous; some of them were even buried in their chains, and there have been found upon the bones taken from the grave chains and iron rings of near forty pounds’ weight.… He had been three times married, has left several children; he had been in the Army, had a liberal education, and lived in what is called the great world. His manners and address were those of a gentleman. Cruelty appears in him to have been the effect of violence of temper, _and habit had made him regardless of the death and suffering of a slave_.--RIGHT HON. HUGH ELLIOT, Governor of the Leeward Islands: _Memoir_, by the COUNTESS OF MINTO, pp. 409, 410. Is slavery less slavery in a Christian than in a Mahometan country? I entreat your attention, while I plead the general cause of humanity. In such a cause it is right to appeal to your sensibility as well as your reason. It is now no longer time to flatter petty tyrants by acknowledging that color constitutes a legitimate title for holding men in abject and perpetual bondage. In support of this usurpation what can be urged but the law of the strongest?--COL. DAVID HUMPHREYS, _Valedictory Discourse before the Cincinnati of Connecticut_, July 4, 1804, p. 29. Christianity suppressed slavery, but the Christians of the sixteenth century reëstablished it,--as an exception, indeed, to their social system, and restricted to one of the races of mankind; but the wound thus inflicted upon humanity, though less extensive, was far more difficult of cure.--TOCQUEVILLE, _Democracy in America_, ed. Bowen, Chap. XVIII. sec. 2, Vol. I. p. 457. The Kentuckian delights in violent bodily exertion; he is familiar with the use of arms, and is accustomed from a very early age to expose his life in single combat.… Were I inclined to continue this parallel, I could easily prove that almost all the differences which may be remarked between the characters of the Americans in the Southern and in the Northern States have originated in Slavery.--IBID., pp. 467, 468. I visited our State Penitentiary a short time since, and from my own personal observation I am led to the inevitable conclusion that the plan of sending our slaves to the Penitentiary, as a _punishment_ for crime, is exactly the reverse: it is rather a reward than punishment. “Let sober reason judge.”