. He
returned one day to his father's house, after a brief absence,
and found the family dismayed and indignant at the kidnapping of
a colored woman in their employ.

Thomas immediately resolved to follow the kidnappers, and so
started in pursuit. Some peculiarity about the track made by
their wagon, enabled him to trace them with ease, and he
followed them by a devious course, from Darby, to a place near
the Navy Yard, in Philadelphia, and then by inquiries, etc.,
tracked them to Kensington, where he found them, and, we
believe, secured the woman's release.

During this ride, he afterwards assured his friends, he felt the
iniquity and abomination of the whole system of Slavery borne in
upon his mind so strongly, as to fairly appal him, and he seemed
to hear a voice within him, assuring him that his work in life
must be to help and defend this persecuted race.

From this time forward, he never failed to assist any fugitive
from Slavery on the way to freedom, and, of course, after his
removal to this city, his opportunities for this were greatly
increased, and in course of time, his house became known as one
of the refuges for fugitives. The sentiment of this community
was, at that time, bitterly averse to any word or effort against
Slavery, and Mr. Garrett had but half a dozen friends who stood
by him. Nearly all others looked at him with suspicion, or
positive aversion, and his house was constantly under the
surveillance of the police, who then, sad to say, were always on
the watch for any fugitives from bondage. Thomas was not
disheartened or dismayed by the lack of popular sympathy or
approval. He believed the Lord was on his side, and cared
nothing for the adverse opinion of men.

Many and interesting stories are told of the men and women he
helped away, some of them full of pathos, and some decidedly
amusing. He told the latter which related to his ingenious
contrivances for assisting fugitives to escape the police with
much pleasure, in his later years. We would repeat many of them,
but this is not the time or place. The necessity of avoiding the
police was the only thing, however, which ever forced him into
any secrecy in his operations, and in all other respects he was
"without concealment and without compromise" in his opposition
to Slavery. He was a m