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$228,000. Drayton was himself fined $10,000 and sent to prison in 
default, but through the efforts of Senator Sumner, after four years’ 
imprisonment, was pardoned. The affair caused intense excitement 
in Congress. 
Undeterred by such disasters, Richard Dillingham, a Quaker, for 
aiding a slave to escape, was condemned to three years’ imprisonment 
in the Nashville penitentiary; but, separated from his aged parents 
and his betrothed bride, he died in two months in the prison, from 
an epidemic of cholera. 
A year after Dillingham’s death, William M. Chaplin, for attempt- 
ing the release of two negroes, the property of Robert Timms and 
Alexander H. Stevens, was arrested, but was released on bail bonds of 
$20,000. After five months’ imprisonment, by consent of his bond- 
men he sacrificed his bail rather than meet the trial, which would have 
resulted in a fifteen years’ imprisonment. 
Peter Still escaped from Alabama after forty years of slavery. 
It was too perilous a task for him to return for his family through 
1,600 miles of danger and difficulty. Seth Concklin, a white man, 
volunteered to do it. “He travelled,” says “Ascot Hope,” “from 
first to last some thousands of miles, and spent two or three months 
among men who might have hung him up to the nearest tree had 
they guessed his true business.” Seth Concklin convoyed his party 
as far as Vincennes. He was arrested and escaped, but was “found 
drowned with his hands and feet in fetters and his skull fractured ”— 
perhaps by accident, perhaps by a darker fate. 
Two brothers, market-gardeners, living near Baltimore, concealed 
in a large box a slave woman and her daughter and conveyed it in 
their market wagon across Maryland and Pennsylvania, a three weeks’ 
journey, to the land of liberty. Two students of Marion College 
were sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment for assisting two negroes 
to escape, and a pro-slavery party burned the college to the ground. 
Among the most heroic agents of the Underground Railway were 
the negroes themselves. Many of these, having tasted the sweets of 
liberty in Canada, voluntarily incurred the risks of recapture, with the 
fearful penalties consequent thereon, in their endeavour to bring off 
their kinsfolk and often those whose only kinship was that of race 
and misfortune. Professor Redpath considers as many as 500 a year 
as incurring this risk. 
No danger was too great for these knights of Christian chivalry 
toincur. With a reward for their capture, dead or alive, they braved 
imminent peril again and again. 
One of the most notable of these sable heroes was Josiah Henson, 
the original of Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom.” Born and bred a slave, | 
