...y satisfied with the success of my effort—which has not, so far as I know, excited any opposition. At all events I have defined my position. The pro-slavery sentiment was very strong in Newburyport , and Mr. Higginson's parish contained sundry sea-captains who saw no sin in returning fugitive slaves to their owners. Later one of these very men took Sims, the runaway slave, back to Savannah. ...