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| 140 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. a " pretty bad man," who was " always quarreling," and " would drink, swear and lie." Left simply because he " never got anything for his labor." On .taking his departure for Canada, he was called upon to bid adieu to his mother and three brothers, all under the yoke. His master he describes thus— "His face was long, cheek-bones high, middling tall, and about twenty-six years of age." With this specimen of humanity, Charles was very much dissatisfied, and he made up his mind Dot to stand the burdens of Slavery a day longer than he could safely make his way to the North. And in making an effort to reach Canada, he was quite willing to suffer many things. So the.first chance Charles got, he started, and Providence smiled upon his resolution; he found himself a joyful passenger on the Underground Rail Road, being entertained free, and receiving attentions from the Company all along the line through to her British Majesty's boundlessly free territory in the Canadas. True, the thought of his mother and brothers, left in the prison house, largely marred his joy, as it did also the Committee's, still the Committee felt that Charles had gained his Freedom honorably, and at the same time, had left his master a poorer, if not a wiser man, by at least $1200. CHARLES HENRY was a good-looking young man, only twenty years of age, and appeared to possess double as much natural sense as he would require to take care of himself. John Webster of Sandy Hook, claimed Charles' time, body and mind, and this was what made Charles unhappy. Uneducated as he was, he was too sensible to believe that Webster had any God-given right to his manhood. Consequently, he left because his master "did not treat him right." Webster was a tall man, with large black whiskers, about forty years of age, and owned Charles* two sisters. Charles was sorry for the fate of his sisters, but he could not help them if he remained. Staying to wear the yoke, he felt would rather make it worse instead of better for all concerned. LUTHER DORSET is about nineteen years of age, rather smart, black, well made and well calculated for a Canadian. He was prompted to escape purely from the desire to be "free" He fled from a " very insulting man," by the name of Edward Schriner, from the neighborhood of Sairs-ville Mills, Frederick Co., Md. This Schriner was described as a " low chunky man, with grum look, big mouth, etc.," and was a member of the German Reformed Church. " Don't swear, though might as well; he was so bad other ways." . t LUTHER was a member of the Methodist church at Jones Hill. Left his father in chains; his mother had wisely escaped to Canada years back, •when he was but a boy. Where she was then, he could not tell, but hoped to meet her in Canada. |