CHAP. XVII.] SLAVES TAKEN TO FREE STATES. 239 



own states, and speak enthusiastically of the beauty and grandeur 

 of the scenery. Their intercourse with the north was useful in 

 giving them new ideas, and showing them what rapid progress 

 civilization is making there ; but they have been deterred from 

 traveling there of late, owing, as they tell me, to the conduct of 

 the abolitionists toward the negro servants whom they take with 

 them, 



Sometimes a writ of Habeas Corpus is served, and the colored 

 servant is carried before a magistrate, on the plea that he or she 

 are detained against their will. Even where they have firmly 

 declared their wish to return to their owners, they have been 

 often unsettled in their ideas, and less contented afterward with 

 their condition. 



