So much intellect as the slaveholder has around him, requires watching.

Their safety depends upon their vigilance.

Conscious of the injustice and wrong they are every hour{214} perpetrating, and knowing what they themselves would do if made the victims of such wrongs, they are looking out for the first signs of the dread retribution of justice.

They watch, therefore, with skilled and practiced eyes, and have learned to read, with great accuracy, the state of mind and heart of the slaves, through his sable face.

These uneasy sinners are quick to inquire into the matter, where the slave is concerned.