in Anne Arundel county, came late one evening to Mr. Tyson, and begged that he would listen to his case.  His master had promised him his freedom, provided he would raise and pay him the sum of five hundred dollars in six years; and he had earned half of the money, which he had given his master.  The six years were not expired, yet he was about to be sold to Georgia.  Mr. Tyson asked if ’there was any receipt for the money.’  ‘No.’  ’Was there any witness who could prove its payment?’ ‘Nobody but his master’s wife.’  ‘Then,’ said Mr. Tyson, ’the law is against thee, and thou must submit.  I can do nothing for thee.’  Never, said Mr. Tyson, when relating this story, shall I forget the desperate resolution which showed itself in the countenance and manner of this man when he said, with clenched fist, his eyes raised to Heaven, his whole frame bursting with the purpose of his soul, while a smile of triumph played around his lips, ’I will die before the Georgia man shall have me.’  And then suddenly melting into a flood of tears, he said, ‘I cannot live away from my wife and children.’  After this poor fellow had left me, said Mr. Tyson, I said to a person present, ’That is no common man; he will do what he has resolved.’

“A short time afterwards, the remains of a colored person who had been drowned in the basin at Baltimore were discovered.  The fact coming to the knowledge of Mr. Tyson, he went to see the body, and recognized in its features and from its dress, the remains of the unfortunate man who, a short time before, had breathed the dreadful resolution in his presence.”

Such are a few of the memorials which this friend of the human race has left behind him.  He was not less persevering, and scarcely less successful in his endeavors to obtain the mitigation of the slave laws in Maryland.  Some of the most repulsive of these were repealed or altered, particularly those restricting manumissions.  Thus the condition and the prospects of the whole body of slaves was improved, in addition to more than two thousand delivered by his immediate instrumentality from illegal bondage.  Hundreds of free and happy families have cause at this day to bless the memory of “Father Tyson.”

He also deeply interested himself on behalf of the Indian tribes; and once in company with another individual, as a deputation from the Society of Friends in Baltimore, undertook a dangerous journey to visit several tribes 1000 miles distant, to the north-west of the Ohio.  The main object of the mission was to induce the Indians to refrain from the use of ardent spirits—­of whose destructive effects the chiefs were themselves fully sensible.  The following affecting address was made to an assembly of “Friends” in Baltimore, by Little Turtle, a chief famous for courage, sagacity and eloquence: