He was guilty of theft when he departed, for which I hope he has made due amends.

I have heard he was a 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.