o observe a more legal and civilized mode of conforming
to the marriage rite than had been permitted them in slavery, and as
Theodore Parker had shown himself a very warm friend of their's, they
agreed to have their wedding over again according to the laws of a free
State. After performing the ceremony, the renowned and fearless advocate
of equal rights (Theodore Parker), presented William with a revolver and
a dirk-knife, counselling him to use them manfully in defence of his
wife and himself, if ever an attempt should be made by his owners or
anybody else to re-enslave them.

But, notwithstanding all the published declarations made by
abolitionists and fugitives, to the effect, that slave-holders and
slave-catchers in visiting Massachusetts in pursuit of their runaway
property, would be met by just such weapons as Theodore Parker presented
William with, to the surprise of all Boston, the owners of William and
Ellen actually had the effrontery to attempt their recapture under the
Fugitive Slave Law. How it was done, and the results, taken from the
_Old Liberator_, (William Lloyd Garrison's organ), we copy as follows:

From the "Liberator," Nov. 1, 1850.

SLAVE-HUNTERS IN BOSTON.

Our city, for a week past, has been thrown into a state of
intense excitement by the appearance of two prowling villains,
named Hughes and Knight, from Macon, Georgia, for the purpose of
seizing William and Ellen Craft, under the infernal Fugitive
Slave Bill, and carrying them back to the hell of Slavery. Since
the day of '76, there has not been such a popular demonstration
on the side of human freedom in this region. The humane and
patriotic contagion has infected all classes. Scarcely any other
subject has been talked about in the streets, or in the social
circle. On Thursday, of last week, warrants for the arrest of
William and Ellen were issued by Judge Levi Woodbury, but no
officer has yet been found ready or bold enough to serve them.
In the meantime, the Vigilance Committee, appointed at the
Faneuil Hall meeting, has not been idle. Their number has been
increased to upwards of a hundred "good men and true," including
some thirty or forty members of the bar; and they have been in
constant session, devising every legal method to baffle the
pursuing bloodhounds, and relieve the city of their hateful
presence. On Saturday placards were posted up in all