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109 add the following to show what description of persons take their liberty:—"Twenty Dollars Reward—Ran away from the Plantation of the undersigned, the Negro Man, Frederick, a Preacher, 5 ft. 9 in. high, above forty years old, but not looking over twenty-eight, stamped M. B. on the breast, and having both small toes cut off; he is of very dark complexion, with eyes small but bright, and looks quite insolent, dresses well, and was arrested as a run-away at Donaldsville some three years ago. The above reward will be paid for his arrest, by addressing Messrs. Armont, Brothers, St. James' Parish, Shillenberger & Co., 30, Torondelet Street, New Orleans, Picayune."

It seems from the above that this Preacher was not too pious to run away, and thus deprive his master of what he had no right, and that this was the second time he had committed treason against the Slave Laws and Southern Theology by running away. Although a Preacher yet he would be a much better one if free. Such advertisements as this are cut out of Southern newspapers and put into some of the Northern papers, so that men who are sufficiently brutalised begin to hunt for the poor Fugitives. The Under-ground Railroad is doing good business as the following will evidently show "Yesterday a Slave man from Kentucky swam the Ohio