Being informed that the horse belonged to his new master, Mr. Hart, who had kindly permitted him to use it, he ordered the animal to be taken to the stable and supplied with hay and oats.  James was treated kindly by all the family, and spent two days very agreeably.  When about to take leave, Mr. McCalmont said to him, “Well, Jim, I am glad to find that you have a good master, and are happy.  But I had rather you would not come here again in the style you now have; for it will make my people dissatisfied.”

James returned much pleased with his excursion, and soon went to give Friend Hopper an account of it.  He served out his time faithfully, and remained afterward in the same family, as a hired servant.

WILLIAM ANDERSON.

William was a slave in Virginia.  When about twenty-five years old, he left his master and went to Philadelphia with two of his fellow slaves; giving as a reason that he wanted to try whether he couldn’t do something for himself.  When they had been absent a few months, their master “sold them running” to Mr. Joseph Ennells, a speculator in slaves, who procured a warrant and constable, and repaired to Philadelphia in search of his newly acquired property.  They arrived on Saturday, a day when many people congregated at the horse-market.  Ennells soon espied the three fugitives among the crowd, and made an attempt to pounce upon them.  Luckily, they saw the movement, and dodging quickly among the multitude, they escaped.

After spending some days in search of them, Ennells called upon Isaac T. Hopper and Thomas Harrison, and offered to sell them very cheap if they would hunt them up.  Friend Hopper immediately recognized him as the man who had threatened to blow out his brains, when he went to the rescue of old William Bachelor; and he thus addressed him:  “I would advise thee to go home and obtain thy living in some more honorable way; for the trade in which thou art engaged is a most odious one.  On a former occasion thou wert treated with leniency; and I recommend a similar course to thee with regard to these poor fugitives.”

The speculator finally agreed to sell the three men for two hundred and fifty dollars.  The money was paid, and he returned home.  In the course of a few days William Anderson called upon Isaac T. Hopper for advice.  He informed him that Thomas Harrison had bought him and his companions, and told him he had better find the other two, and go and make a bargain with Friend Harrison concerning the payment.  He called accordingly, and offered to bind himself as a servant until he had earned enough to repay the money that had been advanced; but he said he had searched in vain for the two companions of his flight.  They had left the city abruptly, and he could not ascertain where they had gone.  Thomas Harrison said to him, “Perhaps thou art not aware that thou hast a legal claim to thy freedom already; for I am a citizen of Pennsylvania, and the laws here do not allow any man to hold a slave.”