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Show JtH NOTES ON 'l'he fiftl, clwptcr tl·ents 0f qn~. dr. oo. n girls anc.l Ohio jus~ f, 'l,!tc folJowiiW is c\tar:lCten stJC .- v ·k p. <:- ICC~. ;' I ·wu ~ inNcw.LOl ,a. JC ,, Lnst sprillg, wlnlc the aut 101 . I . :lnd . said 'I . . f Ol·io c:unc to ICI , ' b)· t crian .clcrgym:m, 0 . · 'r t . hout the \roman's cro:."- l tl y di'-:putc tlwt <IC ,t I undcrstall~ IC N~w I know ::~11 about that, for I got tIC ing the nvcr. . ' hat helped her UJ' the hank. I stot·y from tile vety man t . . . C nnd·t" . . r . ·1 c is now ]Jvlllg 10 a ' <. know 1t JS true, 01 8 1 ~ t across the Atlantic. I Last spring, i\I rs . ..._ tO~\"C 8UJ~1: a vcllinrr in Eno-lan.d! I k 't . true fm· she IS no" r. o o ·now 1 IS ' 1 tl t didn't see her swim. got the story fro~n t IO man" l~f Pr~fcssor Sto,yc a.ml th~ A to "Justice D--, 1 • b ~ whom he c::tllcd knew the ::mid Justice to c mag1stratc on . l 1 b ·ing l)im before the :lutho-h n. rascal why dlt not t tcy I . . . s~~ ' J , ' their duty to do it as good Cltt7.cns .. ntJCs. t "as I· l ll this kind of busmcss, ami "He's the ma.n t tat c oca a l 't " . and there 'II be :.tn en<. to I • he '11 dellver her up, ' r l " but was tlte,·e "an . R l I rarker was " de 1\'ere, up, . , .. ac ~e ?". 0 the contrary she was dcllverctl back a.gn.m. end to It 11 · ' • f ·r "by A l .; would have been ·with the girl m quos !On : I ' h nc so I f Ohio she wa.s entitled to her freedom, from t c the laws o h . , been brought into the State, and left fact of her ~v.\~g b the consent of her mistress," the there, ~el~potatf ~he ~ave States would hnse adjudged her ~.~~~t;o:·n t~~~:~c o cases nrc a.lways deciJcd according to tho lex loci. . . the "Senator Bird" of the Professor Stowe, It s~c~s~ '~1.Soll' a. fu •ritivc sla.ve, n.s the story; but instead of Je pm~ . ~ don~ he merely hclpc!l Senator is represcn ted als h,f~vmmt:l H llnap,pers. a praiscwor-f nan tO S'IVC lCr 1'0 ~ ' ' off a. rce wm ' , . l. ·1 lo Southerner would con-thy deed in him, and one m w HC l 1 I sent to be left behind.. " ions negroes." The 'I he sixth chapter lS devoted to p ble J osi·lh following · extract from the a.ecoun t o f " the venera ' TJNC LP. TOM 'S CAlliN. 1G5 Henson," "now a clergyman in Canada," is commended to the consideration of those who oppose tho "Fugitive La.w," antl try to obstruct its execution:- " 1Icnson forthw ith not only became a Christian, but bcga.n to Uecbre the news to those about him ; anti, being a man of great naturn l force of mind :tnU. strength of character, his camest endeavors to enligJ,tcn his fe llow-heathen were so successful, that he was g radually leU to assume the station of a. negro preacher; und though he couhl not read a word of the DiLle or hymn-book, his h bors in this lino were much prospered. lie became immrdiatcly a very valuable slave to his ma~tcr, and was int rusted by the la tter with the oversight of his whole estate, which he managed with great judgment ami prudence. llis master appears to have been a. very ordinary man in every rcspcct,-to hare been entirely incapable of estimating him in any other light thon as exceedingly valuable property, and to have hu.cl no other feeling excited by l1is extraordinary faithfulness than the U.csire to make the most of Uim. " 'hen his aflU.irs became embarrassed, he form ed the design of removing all l1is negroes into Kentucky, and intrusted the opel'ation enti rely to his overseer. H enson was to tnke them :done, without any other attendant, fl'om ]\[nrylnnrl to Kentucky, a distance of some tl1ous:mds of miles, giving only his promise llS a Christian tln1t he woulU. faithfully perform this undertaking. On the w;1y thither tl10y passed through a portion of Ohio, and there Henson was informed tha.t he could now secure his own frcct1om and iha.t of all his fellows, and he was strong ly urged to do it. lie was cxcccJingly tempted and tried, but hi~ Christian principle was in\'ulncrablc. No induccmcuts could lc:ul him to feel that it was right for a. Cl!ristian to violate :L pledge solemnly given, and his influence over the whole band was so great th:1t IJC took them all with him into Kentucky. Those _casuists among us who |