They are on intimate terms, and their interests and tastes are identical.
Public opinion in such a quarter, the reader will see, is not likely to very efficient in protecting the slave from cruelty.

On the contrary, it must increase and intensify his wrongs.

Public opinion seldom differs very widely from public practice.

To be a restraint upon cruelty and vice, public opinion must emanate from a humane and virtuous community.
To no such humane and virtuous community, is Col.

Lloyd's plantation exposed.