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106 young master). "What was the text?" "He said, I would 'eder loved de one and hate de oder, or I would despise de one and cleave unto de oder,' and de Lord knows I hate you boof." This, however, proves the capabilities of the Slave to reason. One very cold winter's night, I was suddenly aroused by a rapid knock at my door. My neighbour had eight Slaves with two horses and a wagon, which was the entire family. The Ohio river was frozen over. They brought the horses and wagon across on the ice, it being quite near to the river. It was impossible for them to travel with the horses and wagon. I concealed the fugativesfugitives [sic]. The next day the owner was on the look out in the town. They asked me if I knew where the Slaves were? I said "I did, but was under no obligation to inform him." I told him where he could get his horses and wagon. He got them by paying the expenses of them; the Slaves not having the means of procuring them. I had no right to them. As to the moral right of such an act of the fugitives, I have only a word to say,—that he had got a great deal more from the Slaves than the horses and wagon were worth. If they had brought in their bill for every day they had worked for him without wages, and every day that they and their children ought to have been at school, I dare say he would have