iments, but this was the beginning and end
of their offending. They possessed a farm and saw-mill, etc.,
and had established a flourishing school. These good people were
quietly following their usual employments, when, in the early
part of last winter, sixty-two armed Kentuckians rode upon
horseback to their cottage doors, and summarily informed them
that they must leave the State in ten days' time, or would be
expelled from it forcibly. All pleading was hopeless, and any
attempt at self-defence out of the question. They bowed before
the storm, and hastily gathering up their garments, in three
days' time were on their road to Ohio. Their three Christian
pastors took the same course. One of the latter has since
returned to Kentucky, to bury his youngest little boy, in a
grave-yard attached to one of the churches there. He was enabled
to preach to the people who assembled on the occasion, but was
not allowed to remain in his native State.

Another of the exiles ventured to go back to Berea, but this
immediately led to an outbreak of popular feeling, for his
saw-mill was set on fire by the mob, and presently destroyed.
The exiles are consequently still in Ohio, or wandering about in
search of employment. We have been privileged in receiving two
letters respecting them, from one of their excellent pastors,
John G. Fee. This gentleman is himself, the son of a
slave-holder, but gave up his earthly patrimony many years since
for conscience' sake, and has since made it the business of his
life to proclaim the gospel in its purity, and to use every
available means for directing all to Christ.

When speaking of Berea, Mr. Fee remarks: "The land was poor, but
the situation beautiful, with good water, and a favorable
location, in some respects. We could have had locations more
fertile and more easy of access, but more exposed to the
slave-power. It was five miles from a turnpike road, with quite
a population around it for a slave State."

In one of Mr. Fee's letters he introduces a subject which we
wish especially to bring before our friends, feeling almost sure
that many of them will respond to its importance:

"You ask, he says, if there are not noble-hearted young people
in slave-holding families? There is one whom I desire to commend
to your special prayer and regard, Eliza