Grace

; but the wind continuing high, it was
thought unsafe to send the mail across the Sus-
quehanna, which is here upwards of a mile over;
so we concluded to lodge here, and see what the
morning might produce. As we were a mixed
company in the stage, the conversation turned on
various subjects; and the poor Negro slaves being
frequently in sight, as we passed along, they be-
came one of course. I observed one passenger to
be a warm advocate for the slave trade; and he,
in very strong terms, condemned the conduct of
friends who were active in the cause of the Negroes.
Amongst other things, he remarked that there was
a tailor in Philadelphia, a Quaker, of the name
of -- --, whose work-board being at a front
window, he had an opportunity of noticing the pas-
sengers in the street; and that whenever he saw a
Negro whom he judged to be a runaway slave, he
would, in a moment, jump from his work-board
and run into the street. If he found the Negro to
be really a runaway, he would take him under his
protection, and send him to some settlement in the
back parts of Pennsylvania, where he would be
sure to find employment; and thus he went on
from day to day, in what the slave merchant
considered no better than highway robbery. The
man who was making these observations, I found
had been in that trade; and that T. H. was the friend
who had with much propriety been a father to
the oppressed Negroes.