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 why he was not sold.  If this supposition was correct, it is a great pity that his master was not induced by some better motive to avoid an evil action.  Thomas uniformly spoke of Mrs. Darg with respect and gratitude.  He said, “She was always very kind to me and Mary.  I know she did not want to have me sold, or to have Mary sold; for I believe she loved her.  I feel very sorry that I could not live with her and be free; but I had rather live in the State Prison all my life than to be a slave.”

I never heard what became of Thomas.  Friend Shoemaker used to tell me, years afterward, how she secreted him, and rejoiced in the deed.  I heard the good lady, when more than ninety years old, just before her death, talk the matter over; and her kindly, intelligent countenance smiled all over, as she recounted how she had contrived to dodge the police, and avoid being a witness in the case.  The Fugitive Slave Law would be of no avail to tyrants, if all the women at the North had as much moral courage, and were as benevolent and quick-witted as she was.

Those who were most active in persecuting Friend Hopper and Barney Corse convinced the public, by their subsequent disreputable career, that they were not men whose word could be relied upon.

Dr. R.W.  Moore, of Philadelphia, in a letter to Friend Hopper concerning this troublesome case, says:  “I am aware thou hast passed through many trials in the prosecution of this matter.  Condemned by the world, censured by some of thy friends, and discouraged by the weak, thou hast had much to bear.  But thou hast been able to foil thy enemies, and to pass through the flames without the smell of fire on thy garments.  Thy Christian firmness is an example to us all.  It reminds one of those ancient Quakers, who, knowing themselves in the right, suffered wrongs rather than compromise their principles.  For the sake of mankind, I am sorry there are not more such characters among us.  They would do more to exalt our principles, than a host of the professors of the present day.”