I saw depicted on his countenance anxiety bordering on despair, still I was confident that he was a man whose mind was accustomed to faith.

When I learned that he was a native of my own state, Maryland, having been born in the county of Montgomery, I at once became much interested in him.

He had been sent to me by my friend, William Harned, Esq., of the Anti-Slavery Office, 61, John Street.

He put into my hand the following bill of distress:-- "Alexander, Virginia, _September 5th, 1848._ "The bearer, Paul Edmondson, is the father of two girls, Mary Jane and Emily Catherine Edmondson.

These girls have been purchased by us, and once sent to the South; and upon the positive assurance that the money for them would be raised if they were brought back, they were returned.
Nothing, it appears, has as yet been done in this respect by those who promised, and we are on the very eve of sending them south a second time; and we are candid in saying, that if they go again, we will not regard any promises made in relation to them.
"The father wishes to raise money to pay for them, and intends to appeal to the liberality of the humane and the good to aid him, and has requested us to state in writing the _conditions upon which we will sell his daughters_.
"We expect to start our servants to the South in a few days; if the sum of twelve hundred dollars be raised and paid us in fifteen days, or we be assured of that sum, then we will retain them for twenty-five days more, to give an opportunity for raising the other thousand and fifty dollars, otherwise we shall be compelled to send them along with our other servants.
(Signed) "BRUIN AND HILL." The old man also showed me letters from other individuals, and one from the Rev.Matthew A.Turner, pastor of Asbury Chapel, where himself and his daughters were members.