ently g 7 . % y asked how I felt when I found myself in a 3 ”~ . € never be : ‘ en ak c % ction to myself. It w, ble to answer the question with any sat= experienced, I Suppo fel moment of the highest excitement I ever, 0 feel when he is i ees may imagine the unarmed mariner ¥ ofa pirate fn writing to a de friendly man-of-war from the pursuit New York, L said T fel ae Tiend, immediately after my arrival at od ~ Haas This sate of mind. Towever very wareetedeand Tae a Seized with a tecling of GREE yest ee a 2 Stot Wek GF BRAT HNCcuFiy and Toneiness, Lwas vet Hable xy was enough to dace peal the tortures of slavery. This in splines: overcame malt; np the ardor of my enthusiasm. But the lone- ne. There I was in the midst of thousands, and ¥ ness overcame me. Ther perfect stranver, w & perfect Stanger; without home and without fiends in the gthousands of my own brethren=< itse z = h eS gx I dared not to idren_of a common Father, and S 54x ee id to any one of th : 5 § S Gfraid to speak to any one for fe < of them my sad condition. I was SA Sthereby falling into’ of speaking to the wrong one, and & 2, thereby falling into the hands of money-lovi , ~“Ee 2 ae A aA 7 oney-loving kidnappers, whose business it was to lie in wait for the panti oe si a hessts of the forest lie in wai © panting fugitivg, as the ferocious aa ‘ “ ee ie in wait for their pre: he motto which I = = eeradop en 1 started from slavery was this—“Trust no man!” saw, & in every white man an enemy, and in almost every colored man cause |, se fr distrust. It was a most painful situation; and, to understand it, one, F 3 ‘must needs experience it, or imagine himself in similar circumstances. Let him be a fugitive slave in a strange land—a land given up to be. the hunting-ground for slaveholders—whose inhabitants are legalized kidnappers—where he is every moment subjected to the terrible lia~ = Rbility of being seized upon by his fellow-men{as the hideous croco™ : : . : A 7 if dile seizes upon his Me say, let_him place himself in_my 5 Tiends—without money or credit— situation—without home_or t—_wanting bread, and no money wanting shelter, and no one to give if u = to buy it,—and at the same ume fet him feel that he is ursued by 3 ara leeeti ce 2 “merciless men-hunters, and in Total darkness as to what to do, where ae ‘s both as to the means of de- & Ss 2 = > to go, or where to stay,—perfectly helples rae tence and means of esca —in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the ‘t of houses, yet having no of hungen—in the mids‘ terrible gnawin; of h ing 1 TO a TTT yet feling a ifn the mgr SS La nt 7 WAV’