Lloyd afforded an ample field for the exercise of the qualifications for overseership, which he possessed in such an eminent degree.
Mr.Gore was one of those overseers, who could torture the slightest word or look into impudence; he had the nerve, not only to resent, but to punish, promptly and severely.

He never allowed himself to be answered back, by a slave.

In this, he was as lordly and as imperious as Col.

Edward Lloyd, himself; acting always up to the maxim, practically maintained by slaveholders, that it is better that a dozen slaves suffer under the lash, without fault, than that the master or the overseer should _seem_ to have been wrong in the presence of the slave.
_Everything must be absolute here_.

Guilty or not guilty, it is enough to be accused, to be sure of a flogging.