nd I hope they are safe. The man who has them in
charge informed me there were 27 safe and one boy lost during
last night, about 14 years of age, without shoes; we have felt
some anxiety about him, for fear he may be taken up and betray
the rest. I have since been informed there are but 17 so that I
cannot at present tell which is correct. I have several looking
out for the lad; they will be kept from Phila. for the present.
My principal object in writing thee at this time is to inform
thee of what one of our constables told me this morning; he told
me that a colored man in Phila. who professed to be a great
friend of the colored people was a traitor; that he had been
written to by an Abolitionist in Baltimore, to keep a look out
for those slaves that left Cambridge this night week, told him
they would be likely to pass through Wilmington on 6th day or
7th day night, and the colored man in Phila. had written to the
master of part of them telling him the above, and the master
arrived here yesterday in consequence of the information, and
told one of our constables the above; the man told the name of
the Baltimore writer, which he had forgotten, but declined
telling the name of the colored man in Phila. I hope you will be
able to find out who he is, and should I be able to learn the
name of the Baltimore friend, I will put him on his Guard,
respecting his Phila. correspondents. As ever thy friend, and
the friend of Humanity, without regard to color or clime.

THOS. GARRETT.

How much truth there was in the "constable's" story to the effect, "that
a colored man in Philadelphia, who professed to be a great friend of the
colored people, was a traitor, etc.," the Committee never learned. As a
general thing, colored people were true to the fugitive slave; but now
and then some unprincipled individuals, under various pretenses, would
cause us great anxiety.

LETTER FROM JOHN AUGUSTA.

NORRISTOWN Oct 18th 1857 2 o'clock PM

DEAR SIR:--There is Six men and women and Five children making
Eleven Persons. If you are willing to Receve them write to me
imediately and I will bring them to your To morrow Evening I
would not Have wrote this But the Times are so much worse
Financialy that I thought It best to hear From you Before I
Brought such a Crowd Down Pleas Answer this and

Oblige

JO