Mr.Hopkins resides between Easton and St.Michael's, in Talbot county, Maryland.

The severity of this man made him a perfect terror to the slaves of his neighborhood.

The peculiar feature of his government, was, his system of whipping slaves, as he said, _in advance_ of deserving it.

He always managed to have one or two slaves to whip on Monday morning, so as to start his hands to their work, under the inspiration of a new assurance on Monday, that his preaching about kindness, mercy, brotherly love, and the like, on Sunday, did not interfere with, or prevent him from establishing his authority, by the cowskin.

He seemed to wish to assure them, that his tears over poor, lost and ruined sinners, and his pity for them, did not reach to the blacks who tilled his fields.