He has given me only one pair of shoes the last ten years.”  After careful inquiry, George learned that he could get a private passage on the City of Richmond, if he could raise the passage money.  This he could do cheerfully.  He raised “sixty dollars” for the individual who was to “secrete him on the boat.”  In leaving the land of Slave auctions, whips and chains, he was obliged to leave his mother and father and two brothers in Petersburg.  Pollard had been offered $1,500 for George.  Doubtless he found, when he discovered George had gone, that he had “overstood the market.”  This was what produced action prompt and decisive on the part of George.  So the old adage, in this case, was verified—­“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.”

On arriving in Canada, George did not forget to express gratitude to those who aided him on his road there, as the following note will show: 

    SINCATHANS, canada west.

Brother Still:—­I im brace this opportunity of pening you a few lines to in form you that I am well at present & in hopes to find you & family well also I hope that god Will Bless you & and your family & if I never should meet you in this world I hope to meet you in glory Remember my love to Brother Brown & tell him that I am well & hearty tell him to writ Thomas word that I am well at present you must excuse me I will Rite when I return from the west.

    GEORGE W. FREELAND

    Send your Letters in the name of John Anderson.

MILES WHITE.  This passenger owed service to Albert Kern, of Elizabeth City, N.C.  At least Kern, through the oppressive laws of that State, claimed Miles as his personal property.  Miles, however, thought differently, but he was not at liberty to argue the case with Kern; for on the “side of the oppressor there was strength.”  So he resolved, that he would adopt the Underground Rail Road plan.  As he was only about twenty-one years of age, he found it much easier to close his affairs with North Carolina, than it would have been had he been encumbered with a family.  In fact, the only serious difficulty he had to surmount was to find a captain with whom he could secure a safe passage North.  To his gratification it was not long before his efforts in this direction were crowned with success.  A vessel was being loaded with shingles, the captain of which was kind enough to allow Miles to occupy a very secure hiding-place thereon.  In course of time, having suffered to the extent usual when so closely conveyed, he arrived in Philadelphia, and being aided, was duly forwarded by the Committee.