The tide of public
sentiment changed--Hanaway, and the other "traitors," began to be looked
upon as having been greatly injured, and justly entitled to public
sympathy and honor, while confusion of face, disappointment and chagrin
were plainly visible throughout the demoralized ranks of the enemy.
Hanaway was victorious.

An effort was next made to convict Thompson, one of the colored
"traitors." To defend the colored prisoners, the old Abolition Society
had retained Thaddeus Stevens, David Paul Brown, William S. Pierce, and
Robert P. Kane, Esqs., (son of Judge Kane). Stevens, Brown and Pierce
were well-known veterans, defenders of the slave wherever and whenever
called upon so to do. In the present case, they were prepared for a
gallant stand and a long siege against opposing forces. Likewise, R.P.
Kane, Esq., although a young volunteer in the anti-slavery war, brought
to the work great zeal, high attainments, large sympathy and true pluck,
while, in view of all the circumstances, the committee of arrangements
felt very much gratified to have him in their ranks.

By this time, however, the sandy foundations of "overseer" Brent and
Co., (on the part of slavery), had been so completely swept away by the
Hon. J.M. Read and Co., on the side of freedom, that there was but
little chance left to deal heavy blows upon the defeated advocates of
the Fugitive Slave Law. Thompson was pronounced "not guilty." The other
prisoners, of course, shared the same good luck. The victory was then
complete, equally as much so as at Christiana. Underground Rail Road
stock arose rapidly and a feeling of universal rejoicing pervaded the
friends of freedom from one end of the country to the other.

Especially were slave-holders taught the wholesome lesson, that the
Fugitive Slave Law was no guarantee against "red hot shot," nor the
charges of U.S. Judges and the findings of Grand Juries, together with
the superior learning of counsel from slave-holding Maryland, any
guarantee that "traitors" would be hung. In every respect, the
Underground Rail Road made capital by the treason. Slave-holders from
Maryland especially were far less disposed to hunt their runaway
property than they had hitherto been. The Deputy Marshal likewise
considered the business of catching slaves very unsafe.

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WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT.

FEMALE SLAVE IN MALE ATTIRE, FLEEING AS A PLANTER, WITH HER HUSBAND AS
HER BODY SE