[Footnote 169: Mr. Quincy also states, that "about a fortnight elapsed, when I was called upon by Rufus Green Amory, a lawyer of eminence at the Boston bar in that day, who showed me a letter from a Southern slaveholder, directing him to prosecute Josiah Quincy for the penalty under the law of 1793, for obstructing the agent of the claimant in obtaining his slave under the process established by that law. Mr. Amory felt, no less than myself, the folly of such a pretence; and I never heard from him, or from any one, anything more upon the subject of prosecution. This fact, and the universal gratification which the fact appeared to give to the public, satisfied my mind, that, unless by accident, or stealth, or in some very thin settled part of the country, the law of 1793 would be forever inoperative, as the event has proved in Massachusetts."--Meeting at Faneuil Hall to protest against the Fugitive Slave Law, letter read from Josiah Quincy, Boston Atlas, Oct. 15, 1850; Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, 232; Appendix D, No. 12.]
[Footnote 180: Appendix D, No. 28; see _post_, § 81.]
[Footnote 189: Liberator, Aug. 15, 1845, "The Branded Hand."]
[Footnote 191: J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 92.]
[Footnote 194: Liberator, April 17, 1851.]
[Footnote 195: Daily Morning Chronicle, April 26, 1851.]
[Footnote 196: Liberator, April 17, 1851.]
[Footnote 198: Boston Journal, May 29, 1854.]
[Footnote 199: Personal statement of Mr. Elbridge Sprague, made to the writer. Col. T. W. Higginson suggests a few minor corrections in Mr. Sprague's narrative. The first person to step in was an unknown negro: the beam used was found in Court Square; none were prepared beforehand; there was but one box of axes.]
[Footnote 200: Boston Daily Advertiser, 1854, Worcester Spy, May 31, 1854, Argument of Mr. R. H. Dana.]
[Footnote 201: Liberator, Aug. 22, 1854.]
[Footnote 204: Commonwealth, June 26, 1854.]
[Footnote 208: 31 Cong. 2 Sess., Senate Journal, 187; Congressional Globe, 580.]
[Footnote 214: Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, 420; Douglass, Life and Times of John Brown, 279, 282.]
[Footnote 215: Von Holst, John Brown, 104.]
§ 63. Methods of escape. § 64. Reasons for escape. § 65. Conditions of slave life. § 66. Escapes to the woods. § 67. Escapes to the North. § 68. Use of protection papers. § 69. Fugitives disguised as whites: Craft case. § 70. Underground Railroad. § 71. Rise and growth of the system. § 72. Methods pursued. § 73. Colored agents of the Underground Railroad. § 74. Prosecutions of agents. § 75. Formal organization. § 76. General effect of escapes.