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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 7: Salmon Portland Chase (search)
ses of escaped fugitives in the courts. So numerous were his engagements in this regard that his antagonists spoke of him sneeringly as the Attorney-General for runaway niggers. Upon some of his Anti-Slavery cases he bestowed an immense amount of work. His argument in the case of Van Zant — the original of Van Tromp in Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,--an old man who was prosecuted and fined until he was financially ruined for giving a lift in his farm wagon to a slave family on its way to Canada, was said at the time to have been the most able so far made in the Supreme Court of the United States. That and other similar utterances by Mr. Chase were published for popular reading, and were widely distributed by friends of the cause. It is possible that, in performing this arduous labor, Mr. Chase, who was not without personal ambition, was able, with his great native sagacity, to foresee, although it must have been but dimly, the possibilities of political development and officia
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 16: the Underground railroad (search)
here were tales about it in the neighborhood. Some children had gone there to play on one occasion, and had been badly frightened by a big — as big as a half-bushel, they asserted-black face that was seen to be watching them. They fled from the premises in great alarm, and for a time there was talk of an investigation by their friends. The incident, however, was soon forgotten. That old barn was a regular station on one of the underground railroads that extended from the Ohio River to Canada. To but few persons was its true character known, and they were very closemouthed about it. I was one of the few that were in the secret. Being the youngest member of the family, it fell to my lot to drive the horses and cows to and from the pasture in which the old barrack was located, and while there it was an easy matter to visit that establishment and ascertain if it sheltered any fresh arrivals. One day I had to report that two fugitives were in the barn, being a mother and child.