The old doctrine that submission is the very best cure for outrage and wrong, does not hold good on the slave plantation.

He is whipped oftenest, who is whipped easiest; and that slave who has the courage to stand up for himself against the overseer, although he may have many hard stripes at the first, becomes, in the end, a freeman, even though he sustain the formal relation of a slave.
"You can shoot me but you can't whip me," said a slave to Rigby Hopkins; and the result was that he was neither whipped nor shot.

If the latter had been his fate, it would have been less deplorable than the living and lingering death to which cowardly and slavish souls are subjected.
I do not know that Mr.Sevier ever undertook to whip Nelly again.

He probably never did, for it was not long after his attempt to subdue her, that he was taken sick, and died.

The wretched man died as he had lived, unrepentant; and it was said--with how much truth I know not--that in the very last hours of his life, his ruling passion showed itself, and that when wrestling with death, he was uttering horrid oaths, and flourishing the cowskin, as though he was tearing the flesh off some helpless slave.