"At a meeting of the people of this county, held in Cambridge,
on the 2d of November, to take into consideration the better
protection of the interests of the slave-owners; among other
things that were done, it was resolved to enforce the various
acts of Assembly * * * * relating to servants and slaves.

"The act of 1715, chap. 44, sec. 2, provides 'that from and
after the publication thereof no servant or servants whatsoever,
within this province, whether by indenture or by the custom of
the counties, or hired for wages shall travel by land or water
ten miles from the house of his, her or their master, mistress
or dame, without a note under their hands, or under the hands of
his, her or their overseer, if any be, under the penalty of
being taken for a runaway, and to suffer such penalties as
hereafter provided against runaways.' The Act of 1806, chap. 81,
sec. 5, provides, 'That any person taking up such runaway, shall
have and receive $6,' to be paid by the master or owner. It was
also determined to have put in force the act of 1825, chap. 161,
and the act of 1839, chap. 320, relative to idle, vagabond, free
negroes, providing for their sale or banishment from the State.
All persons interested, are hereby notified that the aforesaid
laws, in particular, will be enforced, and all officers failing
to enforce them will be presented to the Grand Jury, and those
who desire to avoid the penalties of the aforesaid statutes are
requested to conform to these provisions."

As to the modus operandi by which so many men, women and children were
delivered and safely forwarded to Canada, despite slave-hunters and the
fugitive slave law, the subjoined letters, from different agents and
depots, will throw important light on the question.

Men and women aided in this cause who were influenced by no oath of
secresy, who received not a farthing for their labors, who believed that
God had put it into the hearts of all mankind to love liberty, and had
commanded men to "feel for those in bonds as bound with them," "to break
every yoke and let the oppressed go free." But here are the letters,
bearing at least on some of the travelers:

WILMINGTON, 10th Mo. 31st, 1857.

ESTEEMED FRIEND WILLIAM STILL:--I write to inform thee that we
have either 17 or 27, I am not certain which, of that large Gang
of God's poor, a