feel better after the fatigue
of travel than a thorough bath. Probably you have not been allowed the
opportunity of taking a good bath, and so have not enjoyed one since
your mother bathed you. Don't be afraid of the water or soap--the harder
you rub yourself the better you will feel. Shall we not wash your back
and neck for you? We want you to look well while traveling on the
Underground Rail Road, and not forget from this time forth to try to
take care of yourself," &c., &c. By this course the reluctance where it
existed would be overcome and the proposition would be readily acceded
to, if the water was not too cool; on the other hand, if cool, a slight
shudder might be visible, sufficient to raise a hearty laugh. Yet, when
through, the candidate always expressed a hearty sense of satisfaction,
and was truly thankful for this attention.

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ARRIVAL FROM KENT COUNTY, MD., 1858.

ASBURY IRWIN, EPHRAIM ENNIS, AND LYDIA ANN JOHNS.

The party whose narratives are here given brought grave charges against
a backsliding member of the Society of Friends--a renegade Quaker.

Doubtless rare instances may be found where men of the Quaker
persuasion, emigrating from free and settling in slave States and among
slaveholders, have deserted their freedom-loving principle and led
captive by the force of bad examples, have linked hands with the
oppressor against the oppressed. It is probable, however, that this is
the only case that may turn up in these records to the disgrace of this
body of Christians in whom dwelt in such a signal degree large sympathy
for the slave and the fleeing bondman. Many fugitives were indebted to
Friends who aided them in a quiet way, not allowing their left hand to
know what their right hand did, and the result was that Underground Rail
Road operations were always pretty safe and prosperous where the line of
travel led through "Quaker settlements." We can speak with great
confidence on this point especially with regard to Pennsylvania, where a
goodly number might be named, if necessary, whose hearts, houses,
horses, and money were always found ready and willing to assist the
fugitive from the prison-house. It is with no little regret that we feel
that truth requires us to connect the so-called owner of Asbury,
Ephraim, and Lydia with the Quakers.

Asbury was first examined, and his story ran substantially thus: "I run
away because I was used bad; t