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_A Chapter of Horrors_.
AUSTIN GORE--A SKETCH OF HIS CHARACTER--OVERSEERS AS A CLASS--THEIR PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS--THE MARKED INDIVIDUALITY OF AUSTIN GORE--HIS SENSE OF DUTY--HOW HE WHIPPED--MURDER OF POOR DENBY--HOW IT OCCURRED--SENSATION--HOW GORE MADE PEACE WITH COL.

LLOYD--THE MURDER UNPUNISHED--ANOTHER DREADFUL MURDER NARRATED--NO LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SLAVES CAN BE ENFORCED IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
As I have already intimated elsewhere, the slaves on Col.

Lloyd's plantation, whose hard lot, under Mr.Sevier, the reader has already noticed and deplored, were not permitted to enjoy the comparatively moderate rule of Mr.Hopkins.The latter was succeeded by a very different man.

The name of the new overseer was Austin Gore.