and protracted struggle for freedom.

On inquiry, I learned that they had come from a southern city.
After most extraordinary efforts, it seemed that they had while
in Slavery, secretly banded together, and put themselves under
the guidance of an intrepid conductor, whom they had hired to
conduct them without the limits of the city, in the evening,
when the police force was changed. They came through
Pennsylvania and New Jersey to my office. The agent of the
Underground Rail Road in New York, took charge of them, and
forwarded them to Albany, and by different agencies to Canada.

2. I well remember that one morning as I entered the
Sabbath-school,[A] one of the scholars, a Mrs. Mercy Smith,
beckoned to me to come to her class, and there introduced to me
a young girl of about fifteen, as a fugitive, who had arrived
the day before. In answer to my inquiries, this girl told me the
name of the southern city, and the names of the persons who had
held her as a slave, and the mode of her escape, etc. "I was
walking near the water," she said, "when a white sailor spoke to
me, and after a few questions, offered to hide me on board his
vessel and conduct me safely to New York, if I would come to him
in the evening. I did so, and was hid and fed by him, and on
landing at New York, he conducted me to Mrs. Smith's house,
where I am now staying."

[Footnote A: For three years I superintended a Sabbath-school
mostly composed of colored children and adults. Most of the
teachers were warm-hearted abolitionists, and the whole number
taught in this school during this period, was seven or eight
hundred.]

To my inquiry, have you parents living, and also brothers and
sisters, she replied: "There is no child but myself." "Were not
your parents kind to you, and did you not love them?" "Yes I
love them very much."

"How were you treated by your master and mistress?" "They
treated me very well." "How then," said I, "could you put
yourself in the care of that sailor, who was a stranger to you,
and leave your parents?" I shall never forget her heart-felt
reply: "_He told me I should be free_!"

One Sunday morning, I received a letter, informing me that an
officer belonging to Savannah, Ga., had started for New York, in
pursuit of two young men, of nineteen or twenty, who had been