Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . )as-sage of the Fugitive Slave l)ill necessarily intensified. J. MILLER mKIM. EARL T AB OLITIONISTS. 357 all feeling and made dispassionate thought impossible,and though nearly eighty when this crowning iniquitybecame a portion of United States law, she workedagainst the results with the eagerness of her youth. Formany years she had begged that special notificationshould be sent her of every fugitive who passed throughPhiladelphia, and during the whole time made it herbusiness to supply to each one a gold dollar,
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . )as-sage of the Fugitive Slave l)ill necessarily intensified. J. MILLER mKIM. EARL T AB OLITIONISTS. 357 all feeling and made dispassionate thought impossible,and though nearly eighty when this crowning iniquitybecame a portion of United States law, she workedagainst the results with the eagerness of her youth. Formany years she had begged that special notificationshould be sent her of every fugitive who passed throughPhiladelphia, and during the whole time made it herbusiness to supply to each one a gold dollar, the Societybeing barely able to defray their expenses on to the nextstation, with no provision for wants when the final onewas reached. With larger personal means than AbigailGoodwin, she denied herself in all possible ways that thelittle coin might be always ready for the empty hand,and almost her last injunction was: Write to OliverJohnson, and tell him I die firm in the faith. Mhidthe slave! Mind the slave ! was the watchword for all. De-pression seems to have been unknown. In fact, therewas no time for depression, for between the op
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