The two white men were Constables, who claimed the right of taking up any strange colored person as a slave; while the two colored kidnappers, under the pretext of being abolitionists, would find out all the fugitives they could, and inform these Constables for which they got a part of the reward, after they had found out where the slaves were from, the name of his master, &c.

By the agency of these colored men, they were seized by a band of white ruffians, locked up in jail, and their master sent for.

These colored kidnappers, with the Constables, were getting rich by betraying fugitive slaves.

This was told to me by one of the Constables, while they were all standing around trying to induce me to engage in the same business for the sake of regaining my own liberty, and that of my wife and child.

But my answer even there, under the most trying circumstances, surrounded by the strongest enemies of God and man, was most emphatically in the negative.