confinement in the penitentiary, and died during his imprisonment. He was a good sincere man, a most earnest and indefatigable worker. He was a native of Massachusetts, a graduate of Yale College, and a minister of the gospel. His sympathy for the oppressed slave impelled him to give up his pulpit and give his entire time and labor to the cause of anti-slavery. While full of ardor, bold and daring, he was so indiscreet and rash in his designs and movements as to keep many of the Underground Railroad agents, who received fugitives sent by him, in constant fear lest he would get himself or them into trouble. His outfit when he started on this last journey, was furnished him in Kennet, Chester county, although it was done with extreme trepidation and reluctance by most of the antislavery people, as his plan of going among slaves and encouraging them to leave their masters was not in accord with the general views and wishes of abolitionists, and they endeavored to dissuade him from it. But he believed that by so doing, property in slaves would be rendered so insecure that it would hasten emancipation, or the introduction of hired or free labor. So confident was he that his views were correct, that no argument could move him, and he died a martyr to his cherished scheme of obtaining freedom for others.

After the Christiana riot, three men who had been engaged in it, William Howard, Charles Long, and James Dawsey, formerly slaves, who were acquainted with Caleb C. Hood, came to his place about midnight to ask his advice about the best course for them to pursue. A good supper was given them, and after consultation it was decided that they shoud take shelter in the woods, as D*

the premises might be searched. They wanted to proceed at once to Canada; but their clothes were at their homes, and the money due them in the hands of their employers, and they dare not return for them lest they might be captured. At their desire, Caleb went next day, collected their money and clothing and delivered it to them that night. Howard's wife sent especial request for them not to attempt to leave the country then, as every place was closely watched. Taking a woman's advice, proverbial for being best in emergencies, they gave up their plans of risking an attempt to escape in the midst of so much danger. The family gave them victuals, and saw no more of them for two weeks, when they returned one dark and rainy night at 12 o'clock, and called them up. They had been secreted during that time under the floor of a colored man's house in Drumore township, and now felt the time had come for them to "strike for liberty." Caleb took them that night to Eli Hambleton's. On the following night Eli took them ten miles to the next station. In ten days they reached Canada. Howard then wrote to his wife, who immediately sold their household goods and went to him.

There was a this time a colored woman named Maria living at C. C. Hood's, who one day, when a slave, heard her master selling her to a slave-trader to go South. Horrified at the prospective change, she lost no time making her escape, and through agencies on the Underground Railroad got to William Howard's, thence to C. C. Hood's, where she had been living but a week when the Christiana riot occurred. She was the mother of nine children, eight of whom she left in

slavery. One, a son, had preceded her, and was living with Moses Whitson. In the following winter he went to Massachusetts. Obtaining employment there by which he could support his mother, he wrote for her to come. Cyrus Burleigh was at that time at Hood's, and proposed, that if she would remain a few weeks until he was ready to return to Massachusetts, near where her son was living, he would see her safely to the place. She assented, and at the appointed time she met him in Philadelphia, and was taken care of to the end of her journey.

In 1828 or 1829 a fugitive slave was living with Truman Cooper, in Sadsbury, Lancaster county. One day two slaveholders who had received information of him, accompanied by a guide, entered the field where he was at work, and watching the opportunity to seize him when he could not resist, bound his hands behind him and carried him off. A boy living with Cooper saw the transaction and immediately carried word to Thomas Hood's tannery, near by, when John Hood and Allen Smith started in pursuit of them. Overtaking them at John Smoker's they engaged in a kind of easy familiar conversation until they ascertained that the party was going to put up for the night at Quigg's tavern, Georgetown. Then riding in advance they notified the colored people of that vicinity, who assembled with arms after dark, and surrounded the house in ambush. While the party were at supper, Hannah Quiggs, the landlady, secretly loosened the slave's handcuffs, when, with the bound of a liberated hare, he opened the door and fled. The slaveholders and their guide rushed out to pursue him, but a dusky phalanx

of resolute men arose before their eyes, and presented a solid front, which they knew it was death to encounter. Reaching a grove some distance off, he remained there until the following night, when by some means his pursuers got on his track and gave chase. He, however, eluded them and found a safe retreat in a wood near the residence of Jeremiah Cooper, Sadsbury, Lancaster county, whose wife carried him victuals for a week. He was then furnished with a suit of Jeremiah's plain clothes, and sent to one of the Underground stations in Chester county, whence he made good his escape from danger.

LINDLEY COATES.

(Born 3d mo. (March) 3d, 1794.--Died 6th mo. (June) 3d, 1856.)

Lindley Coates, of Sadsbury, Lancaster county, was one of the earliest of the active abolitionists. Possessing more than ordinary intellectual ability, earnest in the cause of the slave, conscientious in all his purposes, and a clear and forcible speaker, he inspired others with the same sincerity and zeal that actuated him in the anti-slavery movement. Though modest in his ambitions, he was a man adapted by nature to rule over men, and made a masterly presiding officer. He was noted for his clearness of thought, soundness of judg ment, and steadiness of nerve, and marked executive ability. Hence his counsel was sought in all matters of enterprise in the community in which he resided. By his neighbors he was called "long-headed."

He was not voluble in speech, but being a clear reasoner, very sagacious, terse and apposite in his remarks, he was considered a sharp contestant in debate, and never failed to adduce irrefragable argument in all