good man; and this has been my privilege by the bedside
of Isaac T. Hopper.

"He was a man of remarkable endowments, both of head and
heart. His clear discrimination, his unconquerable will,
his total unconsciousness of fear, his extraordinary
tact in circumventing plans he wished to frustrate,
would have made him illustrious as the general of an
army; and these qualities might have become faults, if
they had not been balanced by an unusual degree of
conscientiousness and benevolence. He battled
courageously, not from ambition, but from an inborn love
of truth. He circumvented as adroitly as the most
practiced politician; but it was always to defeat the
plans of those who oppressed God's poor; never to
advance his own self-interest.

"'Few men have been more strongly attached to any
religious society than he was to the Society of Friends,
which he joined in the days of its purity, impelled by
his own religious convictions. But when the time came
that he must either be faithless to duty in the cause of
his enslaved brethren, or part company with the Society
to which he was bound by the strong and sacred ties of
early religious feeling, this sacrifice he also calmly
laid on the altar of humanity.

"'During nine years that I lived in his household, my
respect and affection for him continually increased.
Never have I seen a man who so completely fulfilled the
Scripture injunction, to forgive an erring brother, 'not
only seven times, but seventy times seven.' I have
witnessed relapse after relapse into vice, under
circumstances which seemed like the most heartless
ingratitude to him; but he joyfully hailed the first
symptom of repentance, and was always ready to grant a
new probation.

"'Farewell, thou brave and kind old Friend! The prayers
of ransomed ones ascended to Heaven for thee, and a
glorious company have welcomed thee to the Eternal
City.'"

SAMUEL D. BURRIS,

Referred to by John Hunn, was also a brave conductor on the Underground
Rail Road leading down into Maryland (via Hunn's place). Mr. Burris was
a native of Delaware, but being a free man and possessing more than
usual intelligence, and withal an a