le and graphic pen of James Miller McKim, who was
well known to stand in the front ranks of both the Anti-slavery Society
and the Underground Rail Road cause through all the long and trying
contest, during which the country was agitated by the question of
immediate emancipation, and shared the full confidence and respect of
Abolitionists of all classes throughout the United States and Great
Britain.

The letter from which we have made this extract was written to Hon.
George Thompson, the distinguished abolitionist of England, and speaks
for itself. The other quotation is from the pen of a highly respectable
and intelligent lady, belonging to the Society of Friends, or Quakers,
and a most devoted friend of the slave, whose statement obviously is
literally true.

From Mr. McKiM to GEORGE THOMPSON, 1851.

The accompanying parcel of extracts will give you a full account
of the different slave cases tried in this city, under the new
Fugitive Slave Law up to this time. Full and accurate as these
reports are, they will afford you but a faint idea of the
anguish and confusion that have been produced in this part of
the country by this infamous statute. It has turned Southeastern
Pennsylvania into another Guinea Coast, and caused a large
portion of the inhabitants to feel as insecure from the brutal
violence and diabolical acts of the kidnapper, as are the
unhappy creatures who people the shores of Africa. Ruffians from
the other side of the Slave-line, aided by professional
kidnappers on our own soil, a class of men whose 'occupation'
until lately, had been 'gone,' are continually prowling through
the community, and every now and then seizing and carrying away
their prey. As a specimen of the boldness, though fortunately,
not of the success always with which these wretches prosecute
their nefarious trade, read the enclosed article, which I cut
from the _Freeman_, of January 2d, and bear in mind that in no
respect are the facts here mentioned over-stated.

This affair occurred in Chester county, one of the most orderly
and intelligent counties in the State, a county settled
principally by Quakers. A week or two after this occurrence, and
not far from the same place, a farmhouse was entered by a band
of armed ruffians, in the evening, and at a time when all the
able-bodied occupants, save one, were known to be absent. This