"My informant says that he resided in Louisiana and Alabama during a great part of the years 1819 and 1820:that he frequently saw slaves whipped, never saw any killed; but often heard of their being killed:that in several instances he had seen a slave receive, in the space of two hours, five hundred lasheseach stroke drawing blood.

The one gives, the other receives; the one fails, or is defective; the other makes up; the one mistakes, the other rectifies; the one goes awry, through his inclination, the other sets him right.