Exceptions there may be, but this is true of religious slaveholders, _as a class_.

It is not for me to explain the fact.

Others may do that; I simply state it as a fact, and leave the theological, and psychological inquiry, which it raises, to be decided by others more competent than myself.

Religious slaveholders, like religious persecutors, are ever extreme in their malice and violence.

Very near my new home, on an adjoining farm, there lived the Rev.Daniel Weeden, who was both pious and cruel after the real Covey pattern.