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| 374 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL EOAD. only our friend, bat be is a IT. S. Commissioner, and should Ellen be found in bis bouse, he most resign his office, as well as incur the penalty of the law, and I will cot subject a friend to such s punishment for the sake of our safety.' Was not this noble, when you think how small was the penalty that any one could receive for aiding slaves to escape, compared to the fate which threatened them in case they were captured ? William C. made the same objection to having his wife taken to Mr. ElUs Gray Lormg's, be also being & friend and a Commissioner." This deed of humanity and Christian charity is worthy to be commemorated and classed with the net of the good Samaritan, as the same spirit is shown in both cases. Often was Mrs. Milliard's house an asylum for fugitive slaves. After the hunters had left the city in dismay, and the storm of excitement had partially subsided, the friends of William and Ellen concluded that they had better seek a country where they would not be in daily fear of slave-catchers, backed by the Government of the Halted States. They •were, therefore, advised to go to Great Britain. Outfits wore liberally provided for them, passages procured, and they took their departure for a habitation in a foreign land. Much might l>e told concerning the warm reception they met with from the friends of humanity on cvcrv hand, during a stay in England of nearly a score of years, but we feel obliged to make the following extract suffice: EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WM. FARMER, ESQ., OF LONDON, TO WM. LLOY1> GARRISON, JUNE 2G, 1851—" FUGITIVE SLAVES AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION." Fortunately, we have, at the present moment, in the British Metropolis, some specimens of what were once American " chattels persona)," in the persons of William and Ellen Craft, and William \V. Brown, and their friends resolved that they should be exhibited under the world's huge glass case, in order that the world might form its opinion of the alleged mental inferiority of the African race, and their fitness or unfitnoss for freedom. A small party of anti-slavery friends was accordingly formed to accompany the fugitives through the Exhibition. Mr. and Mrs. Estlin, of Bristol, and a lady friend, Mr. aud Mrs. Richard Wcbb, of Dublin, and a son and daughter, Mr. McDonnell, (a most influential member of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Association—one of our unostentatious, but highly efficient workers for reform in this country, and whose public and private acts, if you were acquainted with, you would feel the Borne esteem and affection for him as is felt towards him by Mr. Thompson, myself aud many ethers)—these ladies and gentlemen, together Avith myself, met at Mr. Thompson's house, and, in company with Mrs. Thompson, and Miss Amelia Thompson, the Crafts and Brown, proceeded from thence to the Exhibition. Saturday was selected, as a day upon which the largest number of the aristocracy and wealthy classes attend the Crystal Palace, and the |