Though attention to prisoners was the mission to which Friend Hopper peculiarly devoted the last years of his life, his sympathy for the slaves never abated.  And though his own early efforts had been made in co-operation with the gradual Emancipation Society, established by Franklin, Rush, and others, he rejoiced in the bolder movement, known as modern anti-slavery.  Of course, he did not endorse everything that was said and done by all sorts of temperaments engaged in that cause, or in any other cause.  But no man understood better than he did the fallacy of the argument that modern abolitionists had put back the cause of emancipation in the South.  He often used to speak of the spirit manifested toward William Savery, when he went to the South to preach, as early as 1791.  Writing from Augusta, Georgia, that tender-hearted minister of Christ says:  “They can scarcely tolerate us, on account of our abhorrence of slavery.  This was truly a trying place to lodge in another night.”  At Savannah the landlord of a tavern where they lodged, ordered a cruel flogging to be administered to one of his slaves, who had fallen asleep through weariness, before his daily task was accomplished.  William Savery says:  “When we went to supper, this unfeeling wretch craved a blessing; which I considered equally abhorrent to the Divine Being, as his curses.”  In the morning, when the humane preacher heard sounds of the lash, accompanied by piteous cries for mercy, he had the boldness to step in between the driver and the slave; and he stopped any further infliction of punishment, for that time.  He says:  “This landlord was the most abominably wicked man that I ever met with; full of horrid execrations, and threatenings of all Northern people.  But I did not spare him; which occasioned a bystander to express, with an oath, that I should be ‘popped over.’  We left them distressed in mind; and having a lonesome wood of twelve miles to pass through, we were in full expectation of their waylaying, or coming after us, to put their wicked threats in execution.”

As early as 1806, James Lindley, of Pennsylvania, had a large piece of iron hurled at him, as he was passing through the streets, at Havre de Grace, Maryland.  Three of his ribs were broken, and several teeth knocked out, and he was beaten till he was supposed to be dead.  All this was done merely because they mistook him for Jacob Lindley, the Quaker preacher, who was well known as a friend to fugitives from slavery.

In view of these, and other similar facts, Friend Hopper was never disposed to blame abolitionists for excitements at the South, as many of the Quakers were inclined to do.  He had a sincere respect for the integrity and conscientious boldness of William Lloyd Garrison; as all have, who know him well enough to appreciate his character.  For many years, he was always an invited and welcome guest on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society in New-York.  Mr. Garrison’s feelings toward