by some
instrument, and that he was in this situation drenched with
arsenic, and puked and purged to death, and that McCreary, or
some one for him, had heard Wiley repeat at Stemen's Run
Station, that he was not on the train, conceived the idea of
taking his body there and hanging it to a tree to convey the
idea that he had committed suicide at that place, and such was
the statement published by some of the Maryland newspapers. His
companions said he eat a very hearty supper that evening at
Francis S. Cochran's, which with the other facts that his
clothing were not soiled, and his stomach and bowels were empty,
goes strongly to substantiate the theory that he had been
stripped and foully murdered, as above indicated. Never was
there a more false assertion than that the "broad brimmed
Quakers in Pennsylvania were accomplices of McCreary," as it is
well known that opposition to slavery has been a cardinal
principle of the Society of Friends for a century. And that
Joseph C. Miller committed suicide because of his being
implicated in the kidnapping is a base fabrication. I knew
Joseph C. Miller from boyhood intimately, and I here take
pleasure in saying that he was an honest, unassuming man, of
good moral character and stern integrity, and would have spurned
the idea of any complication, directly or indirectly, with
slavery or kidnapping.

It appears his foul murder was not sufficient to satisfy the
friends of slavery and kidnapping, but an attempt is now made,
after the victim has slumbered near twenty years in the grave,
to blast his good name by insinuating that he was a party, or
implicated in the vile transactions here narrated.

Rachel remained in jail; Elizabeth, who had been sold to parties
in New Orleans, was sent for by Campbell, ample security having
been given that she should be returned if proved to be a slave.
Their trial finally came on, and after a long and tedious
investigation they were both proven, by hosts of respectable
witnesses to be free. They returned to their mother, in Chester
county, who was still living.

The Grand Jury of Chester county found a true bill against
McCreary for kidnapping, a requisition was obtained, and B.
Darlington, Esq., then High Sheriff, proceeded with it to
Annapolis; but the Governor of Maryland refused to allow