His religion, then, depended on himself.

Assuredly he was more than a man! Legree had several ways of keeping his servants in order--"they were burned alive; scalded, cut into inch pieces; set up for the dogs to tear, or hung up and whipped to death." Now I am convinced that Mrs.Stowe must have a credulous mind; and was imposed upon.

She never could have conceived such things with all her talent; the very conception implies a refinement of cruelty.

She gives, however, a mysterious description of a certain "place way out down by the quarters, where you can see a black blasted tree, and the ground all covered with black ashes." It is afterward intimated that this was the scene of a negro burned alive.

Reader, you may depend, it was a mistake; that's just the way a tree appears when it has been struck by lightning.