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 shouts. A man saved from Slavery! The broken heart of a woman healed! For reasons, best known to themselves, they never made a second attempt to enslave him, which I think, upon the whole, was as much to their own advantage as to that of the Fugitive. The much-admired Christian Poet, has well expressed a sentiment which, I am sure, we must all admire and love:

I was eventually located in another portion of the said State; here my home became more permanently the place for concealing the flying Fugitive, and for those conducted there. Here it was I witnessed remarkable specimens of heroism in the person of an escaped Slave, who had five years previously fled from the State of Kentucky to Canada, and then and there determined to devote his life to the vital interest of his brethren, by redeeming as many as possible from the undying grasp of the greedy monster, the Slaveholder. He was willing to risk the forfeiture of his own freedom, that he might, peradventure, secure the liberty of some. He commenced the perilous business of going into the State from whence he had escaped, and especially into his old neighbourhood, decoying off his brethren to Canada.—