. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom . ncluded that it was not too late toflog the secret out of some of the slaves. Accordingly, he selected a youngslave man for his victim, and flogged him so cruelly that he could scarcelywalk or stand, and to keep from being actually killed, the boy told an un-trulli, and confessed that he and his Uncle Henry killed Webster, the over-seer; whereupon the poor fellow was sent to jail to be tried for his lif
. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom . ncluded that it was not too late toflog the secret out of some of the slaves. Accordingly, he selected a youngslave man for his victim, and flogged him so cruelly that he could scarcelywalk or stand, and to keep from being actually killed, the boy told an un-trulli, and confessed that he and his Uncle Henry killed Webster, the over-seer; whereupon the poor fellow was sent to jail to be tried for his life. But Abram did not wait to hear the verdict. He reached the Committeesafely in this city, in advance of his companion, and was furnished with afree ticket and other needed assistance, and was sent on his way reaching his destination, lie wrote back to know how his friend andcompanion (George) was getting along; but in less than three weeks after hehad passed, the following brief storj reveals the sad fate of poor , who had journeyed with him till exhausted from hunger and badlyfrost-bitten. A few days after his younger companion had passed on North, Romulus. ROMULUS HALL. 53 was brought by a pitying stranger to the Vigilance Committee, in a mostshocking condition. The frost had made sad havoc with his feet and legs,so much so that all sense of feeling had departed therefrom. How he ever reached this city is a marvel. On his arrival medical at-tention and other necessary comforts were provided by the Committee, whohoped with himself, that he would be restored with the loss of his toes one week he seemed to be improving; at the expiration of this time, how-ever, his symptoms changed, indicating not only the end of slavery, but alsothe end of all his earthly troubles. Lockjaw and mortification set in in the most malignant form, and fornearly thirty-six hours the unfortunate victim suffered in extreme agony,though not a murmur escaped him for
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