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of the unequal loving-kindness of a slaveholding mas-
ter, is pronounced by the same tribunal to be indelibly
disgraced and ineffably mean, we nevertheless, call
on every slave who has the reasonable prospect of
being able to run away from slavery, to make the ex-
periment.

We rejoice, with all our hearts, in the rapid multi-
plication of escapes from the house of bondage.
There are now a thousand a year, a rate more than
five times as great as that before the anti-slavery effort.
The fugitive need feel little apprehension after he has
entered a free State. Seven years ago, a great major-
ity of the people in the border free States were in
favor of replunging into slavery their poor, scarred,
emaciated, trembling brother who had fled from its
horrors. But now, under the influence of anti-slavery
lessons, nineteen twentieths of them have come to be
ashamed of and to revolt at such monstrous inhuman-
ity. We add, that the fugitive slave may safely con-
tinue in some of the free States — especially in those
where a jury passes on the question, whether * service
or labor may be due” from a man, merely because he
has had the misfortune to fall into the hands of kid-
nappers and be reduced to slavery. We leave him,
however, to his own free choice between taking up his
abode with us and in the British dominions. If he
prefer the latter, we will gladly furnish him with facil-
ities for realizing his preference. The abolitionist
knows no more grateful employment than that
of carrying the dog and rifle-hunted slave to
Canada.