Without its institution, would our rugged taskmasters have given us a leisure day so often, think you, as once in a month?

Then the Bible tells us how these tribes, being weak I suppose because they had no laws, nor patriotism, nor fellow-feeling of their own, became slaves, and suffered for hundreds of years under crafty kings and cruel taskmasters.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.

It was to deliver the poor Israelites from their cruel taskmasters; to force these Egyptians by terrible lessons, since they were deaf to the voice of justice and humanity to force them, I sayto have mercy on their fellow-creatures, and let the oppressed go free.

While we had money, it was possible to get some slight relief by bribing our taskmasters; but this soon came to an end, and we had to endure their brutality as best we could.

The slave-holders all hated to be classed as bad taskmasters.

And thee knows that the generals of the United States are continually sending back fugitive slaves to bleed under the lash of their taskmasters.

And what calamity do they endure, that live with those hard taskmasters, in gold mines (like those 30,000 Indian slaves at Potosi, in Peru), tin-mines, lead-mines, stone-quarries, coal-pits, like so many mouldwarps under ground, condemned to the galleys, to perpetual drudgery, hunger, thirst, and stripes, without all hope of delivery?

Without its institution, would our rugged taskmasters have given us a leisure day, so often, think you, as once in a month?or, if it had not been instituted, might they not have given us every 6th day?

We require the delay, too, to discover who are our really best men; not merely as orators, but as workers; and you English ought to know better than any nation, that the latter class of men are those whom the world most needsthat though Aaron may be an altogether inspired preacher, yet it is only slow-tongued practical Moses, whose spokesman he is, who can deliver Israel from their taskmasters.

But here, sir, individuals whom the master has known from infancy, whom he has seen sporting in the innocent gambols of childhoodwho have been accustomed to look to him for protection, he tears from the mother's arms, and sells into a strange countryamong strange people, subject to cruel taskmasters.

Not to mention what numbers have been given up to the inhuman usage of cruel taskmasters, who by their unrelenting scourges, have ploughed their backs and made long furrows, and at length brought them to the grave!

But here, sir, individuals whom the master has known from infancy, whom he has seen sporting in the innocent gambols of childhoodwho have been accustomed to look to him for protection, he tears from the mother's arms, and sells into a strange countryamong strange people, subject to cruel taskmasters.

Not to mention what numbers have been given up to the inhuman usage of cruel taskmasters, who by their unrelenting scourges, have ploughed their backs and made long furrows, and at length brought them to the grave!

Yet we do not think it is un-get-over-able, for the following reasons: (a) We do not intend to be hard-taskmasters.

Enormous public works were planned and the enslaved caste were compelled to carry out their allotted labour under rigorous taskmasters, who made their lives a burden to them.

They seem at least to have had no lack of food and shelter, and if they had to work hard, and were cruelly treated by their taskmasters, we have become familiar in the Indian villages with many instances of cruelty in the treatment of the low caste by the high such as could not well have been surpassed in Egypt itself, to say nothing of the extortions of the money-lender and the ravages of famine and pestilence referred to elsewhere.

"Still the padres were not hard taskmasters," insisted the stranger.

And what harsh taskmasters our cares can be!

We care little for his inconsistencies; but the feat which he has here performed, by his "shadings," his "translations into Indian phraseology," and his medley of "pale faces," "great waters," "floating houses," "truncated pyramids," "hard taskmasters," "winds," "climates," "religions," and "laws of population," we believe to be unsurpassed by anything ever perpetrated in prose or rhyme, by Grecian bard or mediaeval monk.

Dey was hard taskmasters.

In them, the Hebrews must have had excellent workmen for teachers and taskmasters, to have enabled them to acquire sufficient skill and experience to carry out such precise instructions as were given for the erection of the Tabernacle, some 1,500 years before Christas to the kinds of wood, measurements, ornaments, fastenings ("loops and taches"), curtains of linen, and coverings of dried skins.

Unfortunately for them, one had been a London tailor, the other a shoemaker, and the luckless pair of feeble Cockneys could be of little use to their taskmasters.

I invite my readers to realise the enormous pecuniary worth of the two million prisoner slaves now reclaiming swamps, tilling the soil, building roads and railways, and working in factories for their German taskmasters.

I suppose some of them do; but again, it must be a hard matter for those who do not, not to obtain the mitigation of their toil which their condition requires; for their assertion and their evidence are never receivedthey can't be believed, even if they were upon oath, say their white taskmasters; why?