yourself?" "Yes." "When you
were on the Underground Rail Road on your way to Canada you promised
that you were going to keep from all bad habits; how about the
'crittur?' do you take a little sometimes?" "No, I have not drank a drop
since I left the South" replied John William with emphasis. "Good!" "I
suppose you smoke and chew at any rate?" "No, neither. I never think of
such a thing." "Now don't you keep late hours at night and swear
occasionally?" "No, Sir. All the leisure that I have of evenings is
spent over my books as a general thing; I have not fallen into the
fashionable customs of young men." Miss Brown, who had been an attentive
listener, remarked: "HE OUGHT TO BE PUT IN A CAGE, ETC."

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He was twenty-seven years of age when he first landed in Philadelphia,
in the month of February, 1860, per steamer Pennsylvania, in which he
had been stowed away in a store-room containing a lot of rubbish and
furniture; in this way he reached City Point; here a family of Irish
emigrants, very dirty, were taken on board, and orders were given that
accommodations should be made for them in the room occupied by J.W. Here
was trouble, but only for a moment. Those into whose charge he had been
consigned on the boat knew that the kettle and pot-closet had often been
used for Underground Rail Road purposes, and he was safely conducted to
quarters among the pots. The room was exceedingly limited, but he stood
it bravely. On landing he was not able to stand. It required not only
his personal efforts but the help of friends to get him in a condition
to walk. No sooner had he stepped on shore, however, than he began to
cry aloud for joy. "Thank God!" rang out sonorously from his overflowing
soul. Alarmed at this indication of gratitude his friends immediately
told him that that would never do; that all hands would be betrayed;
that he was far from being safe in Philadelphia. He suppressed his
emotion. After being delivered into the hands of the Acting Committee,
where he was in more private quarters, he gave full vent to the joy he
experienced on reaching this city. He said that he had been trying
earnestly for five years to obtain his freedom. For this special object
he had saved up sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents, all of which but
the fifteen cents he willingly paid for his passage on the boat. Fifteen
cents, the balance of his entire capital, was all that he had when he
landed in Philadelphia.

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