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their Southern masters. A few days after his arrival, he arrested a colored man, whom he claimed as the property of Nathan Peacock of. Maryland. The man had lived several years in Philadelphia, had taken a lot of ground in the Northern Liberties,se on it. In the course of the investigation, the poor fellow, seeing no chance of escape, acknowledged that he was Mr. Peacock's slave, and had run away from him because he wanted to be free. His friends, being unwilling to see him torn from hieived forty-five dollars for restoring the slave to his master. Friend Hopper told him if he would give an order upon Mr. Peacock for that amount, to go toward buying the slave's freedom, he should be released from confinement, on condition of leavcerning the remainder: I request Isaac T. Hopper to pay the money received from the order, which I gave him upon Nathan Peacock, to the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, or to any other charitable institution he may judge proper. His