way, grant them deliverance.  Oh the misery, the sorrow, which this cursed system of Slavery is constantly bringing upon millions in this land of boasted freedom!

Can you tell me where Sarah King is, who was at your house when I was there?  She was going to Canada to meet her husband.  Give my love to Mrs. Still & accept the same yourself.  Your much indebted & obliged friend,

    HARRIET EGLIN.

The “difficulty” about which Harriet expressed so much regret in the above letter, had reference to a letter supposed to have been written by her friend Charlotte to Baltimore, about her clothing.  It had been intercepted, and in this way, a clue was obtained by one of the owners as to how they escaped, who aided them, etc.  On the strength of the information thus obtained, a well-known colored man, named Adams, was straightway arrested and put in prison at the instance of one of the owners, and also a suit was at the same time instituted against the Rail Road Company for damages—­by which steps quite a huge excitement was created in Baltimore.  As to the colored man Adams, the prospect looked simply hopeless.  Many hearts were sad in view of the doom which they feared would fall upon him for obeying a humane impulse (he had put the girls on the cars).  But with the Rail Road Company it was a different matter; they had money, power, friends, etc., and could defy the courts.  In the course of a few months, when the suit against Adams and the Rail Road Company came up, the Rail Road Company proved in court, in defense, that the prosecutor entered the cars in search of his runaway, and went and spoke to the two young women in “mourning” the day they escaped, looking expressly for the identical parties, for which he was seeking damages before the court, and that he declared to the conductor, on leaving the cars, that the said “two girls in mourning, were not the ones he was looking after,” or in other words, that “neither” belonged to him.  This positive testimony satisfied the jury, and the Rail Road Company and poor James Adams escaped by the verdict not guilty.  The owner of the lost property had the costs to pay of course, but whether he was made a wiser or better man by the operation was never ascertained.

THIRD LETTER.

    SENNETT, October 28th, 1856.

DEAR MR. STILL:—­I am happy to tell you that I am well and happy.  I still live with Rev. Mr. Anderson in this place, I am learning to read and write.  I do not like to trouble you too much, but I would like to know if you have heard anything more about my friends in Baltimore who got into trouble on our account.  Do be pleased to write me if you can give me any information about them.  I feel bad that they should suffer for me.  I wish all my brethren and sisters in bondage, were as well off as I am.  The girl that came with me is in Canada, near the Suspension Bridge.  I was glad to see Green Murdock, a colored young man, who stopped at your house about six weeks ago, he knew my folks at the South.  He has got into a good place to work in this neighborhood.  Give my love to Mrs Still, and believe me your obliged friend,

    HARRIET EGLIN.