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over freedom.
However, it was not long before Thomas returned to New-York, and told the following story: ‘A short time before my release from prison, Mr. Darg brought my wife to see me, and told me we should both be free and enjoy each other's society as long as we lived, if I would go with him. He said I should suffer here at the North; for the abolitionists would do nothing for me. I went with him solely with the hope of living with Mary.
I thought if he attempted to hold me as a slave, we would both run away, the first opportunity.
He told me we should meet Mary in Washington; but when we arrived in Baltimore, he shut me up in jail, and told me Mary was sold, and carried off South.
I cannot describe how I felt.
I never expect to see her again.
He asked me if I consented to come with him on Mary's account, or on his own account.
I thought it would make it better for me to say on his account; and I said so. I hope the Lord will forgive me for telling a falsehood.
When I had been in jail some time, he called to see me, and said that as I did not come with him on account of my wife, he would not sell me; that I should be free, and he would try to buy Mary for me.’
Thomas said he was informed that certain people in New-York wrote to Mr. Darg, advising him not to sell him, because the abolitionists predicted that he would do so; and he thought that was the reason
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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