Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-05

that she was a subject Of my prayers. Anoth-
er week passed, and still no news from her.
In the meantime, one of her friends here came
to my house, every day to learn some tidings
from her, but ! could give none. wrote 10
the gentleman to whom | had given her let
ter, and from whom | might receive an an
swer In three or four days. These came and
passed and no intelligence from either. My
anXlety was great as you may well suppose.
Two days more elapsed it was Saturday,
and still no news when at ten o'clock that
night, just as ! had taken my candle to 90 to
bed, l heard a carriage stop at my door, and
Immediately a loud ring at my bell. ] went
TO the door, and who should it be but the mo-
Their herself.
SLOW reioiced | am to see vou," | exclai-
med, "but where are your children :" There
they are, said she, pointing TO the covered
wagon that stood before my door. Praise
the Lord for his goodness" said |. As |
could not take them into my W house, ow-
ing to the severe ultimately fatally illness of
my youngest child, | went with the mother
and procured a place for her children, where
no human blood-hounds could scent them
out; and early the next week | sent them all
on TO Boston, as the mother could not believe
that she was safe in the city of "brotherly
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Penn.
The following is the plain, unvarnished
story of the heroic mother, as she gave it to
me from her own lips, narrating the manner
she rescued her two daughters from slavery.
81 started for -, the next day after
you gave me the letter, and as soon as |
could on my arrival, | went to find out Mr..
-. After a considerable time | succee-
laI onI rnyo hin, ,onr lottor told him
my object and plans. He quite discouraged
me from the undertaking, saying that i
would be attended with a great many diff
culties and dangers. However | determined
TO 90, and early the next morning started oil
foot. Before night | got thirty or thirty fiv'
miles, | cannot tell exactly to within abou
three or four miles of the house of my oil
master, where my children were. | stayed
there in lie aUOOdS that night, and the mex
day ] contrivcd TO see my sister-in-law, who
lived at no great distance, that she might SCI
a colnred man named -, who | knew
could help me in my object; and also tel
my children that | was coming after them
but to charge them most strictly not to speal
of it to any one. She went TO the house
! where the children were, and got so frighten
ed that she told them | was in the neighGor
, hood. The next day she came back to tn
: woods, where | had still continued, and to-
me what in her fright she had done.
{ "As / had always, whenever ! had gon
> into the neighborhood before, visited my
children, | knew it would excite suspicion
if | did not 90 now so | went directly Il
the house, and saw the old man and his wife
and my children. This was Friday, | stay
cd there on Saturday, and Sunday, till Mon
day evening; cooked and washed for them
= and then bid my children good by, as If
| should never see them again for told mas
f ter that | could not raise the money. Ate
leaving them, l stayed round about in III
avoodS for three days, in hopes of seeing thu
colored man | before spoke of, who woul
e help me. But not being able to see him,
walked back the th!rty-fve miles to -
e see the gentleman to whom you gave me
letter. | told him if | could get a carriag
with a faithful driver, | could get my chi
e dren that | knew such an one in the plac
o if | could get the money to pay him. A
cordingly, he gave me eight dollars on you
account. The next day | engaged my ca
l. rage, and we got down that evening abo
t nine o'clock TO within three miles of Il
y house. told the driver that ! did not thil
lie it would be safe for him to 90 any fartht
l. but that if he would stay there and wait
l. lHC III VIC DlFuh ~ uuJ L e. O'f q"
Iy that if | did not return then he might dri
TO back. | walked on and got to the house
u should think, about eleven o'clock. As
ht came near to it, the two dogs began to BIZ
c. furiously; | stopped a moment and hid
er kind the fence, and saw master get up a
open the window and look out. Not sect
ce anything, he shut down the window. lw
he ted ill | thought he was asleep, and tn
at went forward. The dogs barked again,
n did not fly at me, and | hurried quick into
yo cellar kitchen, where my children slept, a
a laid down along side of their straw bed.
as about fifteen minutes IlCent up into the hOi
a to see if all were asleep, and | heard mast
lie snoring. l then went down and walked
ID, my children, and told them not to speal
"a word. ! got on their clothes as soon al
if could, and fearing that if | went out by
he door the dogs would bark again, ! determ
of ed to 90 out by the back window. | fou
'ue it was fastened. | got up on the window
m, to pull out the nail, and as | was pulling
no it, | prayed, % Lord defend me and my d
iil children this night; | commit myself
ley them to thee At length | got out the II
our and opened the window and lifted my C
far dren out, and then got out myself. The
it dous were there, but they only stood
leir looked at us, and nerer euen gr0'c'ed.
t as 1--WE had to 90 through the garden,
inst to get over three fences and palings, an
d to 90 four miles to where the carriage wa
the But fear behind and hope before amin
US, and we reached the carriage about
ten o'clock. We drove as fast as we coul
and ward - but not intending TO go int
ina city, for | knew that master would be
me as soon as he could, after he walked VI
,nds found the children gone. BY . O'Clock
a be got to a house inhabited by colored p
she, that the driver knew, within four miles
my -. The next night we started, al
II in break Of day got into Pennsylvania, t
house Of a good Quaker man, where we
pro- ed all that day. He took us about 10
iher to another friend, and the next day, S4tu
me this fiend, took US to Philadelphia, W