Had not Henry Box Brown and his friends attracted slaveholding attention to the manner of his escape, we might have had a thousand _Box Browns_ per annum.

The singularly original plan adopted by William and Ellen Crafts, perished with the first using, because every slaveholder in the land was apprised of it.

The _salt water slave_ who hung in the guards of a steamer, being washed three days and three nights--like another Jonah--by the waves of the sea, has, by the publicity given to the circumstance, set a spy on the guards of every steamer departing from southern ports.
I have never approved of the very public manner, in which some of our western friends have conducted what _they_ call the _"Under-ground Railroad,"_ but which, I think, by their open declarations, has been made, most emphatically, the _"Upper_-ground Railroad." Its stations are far better known to the slaveholders than to the slaves.

I honor those good men and women for their noble daring, in willingly subjecting themselves to persecution, by openly avowing their participation in the escape of slaves; nevertheless, the good resulting from such avowals, is of a very questionable character.

It may kindle an enthusiasm, very pleasant to inhale; but that is of no practical benefit to themselves, nor to the slaves escaping.