In all this, he was the opposite of the crafty Covey.
Among the many advantages gained in my change from Covey's to Freeland's--startling as the statement may be--was the fact that the latter gentleman made no profession of religion.

I assert _most unhesitatingly_, that the religion of the south--as I have observed it and proved it--is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes; the justifier of the most appalling barbarity; a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds; and a secure shelter, under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal abominations fester and flourish.

Were I again to be reduced to the condition of a slave, _next_ to that calamity, I should regard the fact of being the slave of a religious slaveholder, the greatest that could befall me.

For all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst.

I have found them, almost invariably, the vilest, meanest and basest of their class.