Why, I believe if a man should brand his horse in this country--burn the initials of his name into any of his cattle, and publish the ferocious deed here--that the united execrations of Christians in Britain would descend upon him.

Yet in the United States, human beings are thus branded.

As Whittier says-- ...

_Our countrymen in chains, The whip on woman's shrinking flesh, Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourgings warm and fresh_.
The slave-dealer boldly publishes his infamous acts to the world.

Of all things that have been said of slavery to which exception has been taken by slaveholders, this, the charge of cruelty, stands foremost, and yet there is no charge capable of clearer demonstration, than that of the most barbarous inhumanity on the part of the slaveholders toward their slaves.