As near as I can recollect, it was as follows:-- "DEAR SIR:--By your direction, I have given your boy twenty lashes.
He is a very saucy boy, and tried to make me believe that he did not belong to you, and I put it on to him well for lying to me.
I remain, Your obedient servant." It is true that in most of the slave-holding cities, when a gentleman wishes his servants whipped, he can send him to the jail and have it done.

Before I went in where Mr.Walker was, I wet my cheeks a little, as though I had been crying.

He looked at me, and inquired what was the matter.

I told him that I had never had such a whipping in my life, and handed him the note.

He looked at it and laughed;--"and so you told him that you did not belong to me." "Yes, sir," said I."I did not know that there was any harm in that." He told me I must behave myself, if I did not want to be whipped again.
This incident shows how it is that slavery makes its victims lying and mean; for which vices it afterwards reproaches them, and uses them as arguments to prove that they deserve no better fate.