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return voluntarily, and my assistance will be quite unnecessary.
I do not justify falsehood and deception; but I am by no means surprised at them in one who has always been a slave, and had before him the example of slaveholders.
Why thou shouldst accuse him of ingratitude, is more than I can comprehend.
It seems to me that he owes thee nothing.
On the contrary, I should suppose that thou wert indebted to him; for I understand that he has served thee more than thirty years without wages.
So far from helping thee to hunt the poor fugitives, I will, with all my heart, do my utmost to keep them out of thy grasp.’
‘Have you seen my man?’
inquired the slaveholder.
‘He came to me when he left his own house in Green's Court,’ replied Friend Hopper; ‘and I gave him such advice on that occasion, as I thought proper.
Thou art the first slaveholder I ever met with bearing my name.
Perhaps thou hast assumed it, as a means of gaining the confidence of colored people, to aid thee in recapturing the objects of thy avarice.’
The Colonel replied that it was really his name, and departed without having gained much satisfaction from the interview.
He remained in Philadelphia a week or ten days, where he was seized with mania a potu. He was carried home in a straight jacket, where he soon after died.
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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