respectable man, and calculated to do some good to his fellow-beings.
Servants are selling from five hundred and fifty to seven hundred
dollars. I will take five hundred and fifty dollars, and liberate him.
If my proposition is acceded to, and the money lodged in Baltimore, I
will execute the necessary instrument, and deliver it in Baltimore, to
be given up on payment being made.

"Yours, &c,

"----."

"Jim was a first-rate mechanic, (blacksmith) and was worth to me one
thousand dollars."

Here he not only refuses to account for my parents, by including them in
his return and proposition, but he at the same time attempts to intimidate
me by mooting the charge of theft.

I confess I was not only surprised, but mortified, at this result. The
hope of being once more united to parents whom I had not seen for sixteen
years, and whom I still loved dearly, had so excited my mind, that I
disarranged my business relations, disposed of a valuable library of four
hundred volumes, and by additional aid obtained among the liberal people
of Jamaica, I was prepared to give the extravagant sum of five hundred
dollars each for myself, and my father and mother. This I was willing to
do, not because I approve of the principle involved as a general rule. But
supposing that, as my former master was now an old man not far from his
grave, (about which I was not mistaken) and as he knew, by his own
shewing, that I was able to do some good, he would be inclined, whatever
might have been our former relations and misunderstandings, to meet my