This treatment is a part of the system, rather than a part of the man.

Were slaveholders to listen to complaints of this sort against the overseers, the luxury of owning large numbers of slaves, would be impossible.

It would do away with the office of overseer, entirely; or, in other words, it would convert the master himself into an overseer.

It would occasion great loss of time and labor, leaving the overseer in fetters, and without the necessary power to secure obedience to his orders.

A privilege so dangerous as that of appeal, is, therefore, strictly prohibited; and any one exercising it, runs a fearful hazard.