his
house, he must resign his office, as well as incur the penalty
of the law, and I will not subject a friend to such a punishment
for the sake of our safety.' Was not this noble, when you think
how small was the penalty that any one could receive for aiding
slaves to escape, compared to the fate which threatened them in
case they were captured? William C. made the same objection to
having his wife taken to Mr. Ellis Gray Loring's, he also being
a friend and a Commissioner."

This deed of humanity and Christian charity is worthy to be commemorated
and classed with the act of the good Samaritan, as the same spirit is
shown in both cases. Often was Mrs. Hilliard's house an asylum for
fugitive slaves.

After the hunters had left the city in dismay, and the storm of
excitement had partially subsided, the friends of William and Ellen
concluded that they had better seek a country where they would not be in
daily fear of slave-catchers, backed by the Government of the United
States. They were, therefore, advised to go to Great Britain. Outfits
were liberally provided for them, passages procured, and they took their
departure for a habitation in a foreign land.

Much might be told concerning the warm reception they met with from the
friends of humanity on every hand, during a stay in England of nearly a
score of years, but we feel obliged to make the following extract
suffice:

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WM. FARMER, ESQ., OF LONDON, TO WM. LLOYD
GARRISON, JUNE 26, 1851--"FUGITIVE SLAVES AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION."

Fortunately, we have, at the present moment, in the British
Metropolis, some specimens of what were once American "chattels
personal," in the persons of William and Ellen Craft, and
William W. Brown, and their friends resolved that they should be
exhibited under the world's huge glass case, in order that the
world might form its opinion of the alleged mental inferiority
of the African race, and their fitness or unfitness for freedom.
A small party of anti-slavery friends was accordingly formed to
accompany the fugitives through the Exhibition. Mr. and Mrs.
Estlin, of Bristol, and a lady friend, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Webb, of Dublin, and a son and daughter, Mr. McDonnell, (a most
influential member of the Executive Committee of the National
Reform Association--one of our unostentatious, but highly
efficient workers for