dwelling a moment on this theme, when I state that one of the latest public acts of my beloved and lamented father-in-law, James Cropper, was to cause John Woolman’s auto-biography and writings to be re-edited, and a large and cheap edition to be struck off, which has appeared since his decease.[A] This work is well known to the Society of Friends, but should any other reader be induced by these desultory remarks to peruse it, he will find himself richly repaid.  In the picturesque simplicity of its style, refined literary taste has found an inimitable charm,[B] but the spiritually minded reader will discover beauties of a far higher order.

[Footnote A:  A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labors, and Christian Experience, &c. &c. of John Woolman.  Warrington, Thomas Hurst.]

[Footnote B:  See Charles Lamb’s Works.]

Taking leave for the present of our venerable friends at Oxmead and Burlington, we proceeded on the 12th to Philadelphia, where we remained several days, at the Union Hotel.  During this brief stay, we received visits from a large number of the friends of the anti-slavery cause, and made some calls in return.  Among others, I had the pleasure of seeing James Forten, an aged and opulent man of color, whose long career has been marked by the display of capacity and energy of no common kind.  The history of his life is interesting and instructive, affording a practical demonstration of the absurdity, as well as injustice, of that prejudice which would stamp the mark of intellectual inferiority on his complexion and race.

I returned to New York on the 15th, in company with several anti-slavery friends.  One of these, Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, resided on the borders of the State of Maryland, and had afforded relief and aid to many negroes escaping from slavery.  He had kept no account of the number thus assisted till last year, when there were thirty-four, being fewer he thought than the average of several years preceding.  The same individual related some interesting particulars of the late Elisha Tyson, of Baltimore, an abolitionist of the old school, who had rescued many negroes from illegal bondage.  Dr. Fussell was an eye witness of the following occurrence:  A poor woman had been seized by the agents of Woolfolk, the notorious Maryland slave dealer, and was carried along the street in which Elisha Tyson lived.  When they arrived opposite his house, she demanded to see “Father Tyson.”  A crowd collected about the party, and she so far moved their pity, that they insisted that her wish should be complied with.  One of the men hereupon went to inform his employer, who galloped off, pistol in hand, and found Elisha Tyson standing at his own door.  Woolfolk with an oath declared he would “send him to hell for interfering with his property.”  Elisha Tyson coolly exposed his breast, telling him that he dared not shoot, and that he (Woolfolk) “was in hell already, though he did not know it.”  An investigation followed; the poor woman was proved to be illegally detained, and was set at liberty.[A] It is generally allowed that so bold and uncompromising an advocate of the negroes’ right as Elisha Tyson does not now remain in the slave States.