speaking of them in religious meetings and in private conversation made him also unpopular. The meeting admonished him to cease from bringing these subjects into his sermons, or they would have to deal with him for the offence. But he paid no heed to their counsel, believing the cause he advocated to be just and that people must be spoken to before they would learn. He often repeated the couplet:

"Truths would you teach to save a sinking land

All shun, none aid you, and few understand."

He held it to be a religious duty that devolved upon him to speak against all manner of sin or evil, no matter what fascinations it presented, nor how lucrative it might be to individuals, society or the State. If it received the sanction of Government and was legalized by statutes, the church should exclaim against it, and the people be instructed to oppose it.

The opposition to him, however, in the meeting was so strong that he was disowned from membership. He bore this act with patience and charity, never uttering a word of contumely against his adversaries. He was willing to concede that they acted according to the highest light they had received or comprehended. But he considered that they needed more light to dispel the Egyptian darkness through which they were travelling. He continued to attend meeting as before, and took his accustomed seat and preached as usual. A little amusement was created on one occasion when he alluded in a sermon to a party of men and women who had come to his place a few nights before, poorly clad, tired and hungry, their flesh bearing the marks of the lash; when he depicted the agonies of the mother, whose child had

been torn from her and sold to traders, and spoke of his hearers' apathy in this matter as professing Christians, because they were not personal observers of these wrongs and sufferings, and because their own persons, and those of their friends were exempt from this system of holding chattel property in man; and when, at this point, one of the elderly friends in the "gallery" behind him remarked: "Have a little mercy on us," he paused for a moment, turned his eyes reverently upward, and then, with a grave and gentle air, replied: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but I see ye are not able to bear them now." He alluded no more to the subject, but the remainder of his sermon was a touching one on love and kindness.

Fugitives were sent to his place from West Chester, and from the western and southern parts of Chester county, and were sent, or taken by him to Elijah F. Pennypacker's, to Philadelphia, and to James Lewis's, in Delaware county.

His son David, now living, has kept a diary since he was a boy, in which he noted anti-slavery and Underground Railroad incidents as they transpired, a few of which we extract to show how the business was conducted at that station.

A memorandum is made of the first anti-slavery meeting in Willistown, which was held in the Friends' Meeting School House, Twelfth mo. (December) 17th, 1836; addressed by William Whitehead, of West Chester; Nathan Evans presided and Dr. Joseph Hickman acted as Secretary.

Twelfth mo. 30th.-Charles C. Burleigh lectured at the same school house.

1842-Eighth mo. 19th.-I started at two o'clock, A. M., with four colored persons to the anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. They were sent here last evening by James Fulton, in care of Henry Lee (colored). These were the first taken to the anti-slavery office.

Eighth mo. 28th.-Two more came from the land of bondage, on their way to Canada.

Ninth mo. 22nd.-About two A. M., Lukens Pierce drove here with a four-horse wagon containing twentyfive colored persons-men, women and children. I took thirteen that evening to the anti-slavery office in Philadelphia; and on the night of the 24th, Davis Garrett, Jr., and John Wright (colored) took the remainder in two dearborns.

Ninth mo. 27th.-Maris Woodward, of Marshallton, brought two colored women, "on their way toward the North Star;" mother took them to Philadelphia on the 29th.

Tenth mo. 10th.-A man and woman came this evening; John Wright took them to Philadelphia on the 12th.

Tenth mo. 19th.-Henry Lee (colored) brought two women and three children from James Fulton's; cousin Joshua Clendenon took them to Philadelphia that night.

Tenth mo. 20th.—Lukens Pierce came with sixteen; father took them to Philadelphia next night. This party was from Washington City and they seemed remarkably well-bred and intelligent.

Davis Garret, Jr., took to Philadel

phia a man and a woman.

Tenth mo. 27th.-Cousin Joshua Clendenon and mother took three men to Philadelphia.

Eleventh mo. 2nd.-A colored traveler arrived, and

went to Philadelphia with father on a load of hay. This man informed us that several more were not far behind. Accordingly, about two o'clock on the morning of the 5th, Simon Barnard came with eleven men and two women; Davis Garrett and William Hibbard, Jr., took them to Philadelphia the following night in two one-horse dearborns.

Eleventh mo. 13th.-Mordecai Hayes arrived about 3 o'clock in the morning with five men. I took them to Philadelphia that night except one old man who remained and hired with us.

Eleventh mo. 15th.-Three men came, and we sent them to James Lewis' on the 17th.

These dates of arrival and departure show the amount of business done at that station, and how it was conducted. It will be seen that the arrivals were frequent, and that no little labor was required, in addition to farm and house work, to provide for and to transmit the number that called yearly. And thus it continued through a period of several years. Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, and Joseph Painter, of West Chester, also sent fugitives to this place.

Nathan Evans frequently said that a great calamity would yet befall this Nation if the sin of slavery continued to be upheld by the people, and sanctioned by the Government. He seemed to have a clear, prophetic vision of the manner in which God would punish the people of this country if they did not repent and give freedom to the children of Africa held here in chains. His predictions, even to the details of the war and its consequences, have been literally verified.

While the subject of this sketch was unpopular in his

own section, on account of his persistence in speaking of slavery in religious gatherings, and to his neighbors who opposed him, yet amongst abolitionists he was regarded as a worthy, conscientious man, warm-hearted, and, though advanced in years, his hands and heart and and pocket were all combined to aid in the cause. As a speaker at anti-slavery meetings he was regarded as earnest, sincere and truthful, and his discourses were weighty and argumentative, based upon scriptural grounds. Therefore, while they were solid, they did not especially attract the masses, and he was considered a little more tedious than the speaker who warms up with the enthusiasm of the moment, and carries his audience with him upon the tide of pleasing and thrilling thought.

His adherence to the principles of right, as he saw and believed them, in all his intercourse in life, and his charity for those who held views different from his own, drew to him others who began to think and believe with himself. But it was not until during the war when the general opinion of the country concerning slavery was changed, that the principles he maintained were adopted in his own neighborhood-a period he did not live to see.