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to make war on the slave-holders with a band of about a 

 hundred men ; ties them up, makes them find waggons, etc., to 

 convey the slaves to a place of safety, and then lets them go. 

 Dr. Howe, who went to Greece and Poland in his youth to 

 fight for liberty, greatly approves of this proceeding, considering 

 it practical. J. Brown had an argument with three Conservative 

 Orthodox clergymen in Boston, which he says was 6 hard sled- 

 ding ' (driving a sleigh over rough land without snow). How- 

 ever, one of them afterwards sent him a hundred dollars as 

 his own private contribution towards the work. He is getting 

 recruits for a new onslaught ; and the Governor of Missouri 

 has offered three thousand dollars for his head." At the 

 cemetery at Mount Auburn, there were two monuments on 

 which Philip looked with especial interest — one to the Apostle 

 of Peace, another to the Martyr for the Enslaved ! On Noah 

 Worcester's was inscribed, " Blessed are the peacemakers." 

 There is a long inscription on the monument in memory of 

 Rev. C. T. Torrey, who was arrested in Baltimore, June 24, 

 1844, for aiding slaves to regain their liberty, and died in the 

 Penitentiary of that city, May 9, 1846. 



He visited many of the institutions for which Boston is 

 renowned ; * but what touched him most was the Channing 

 Home. Miss Ryan, who had been brought up with her sister 

 at an Orphan Asylum, gained a living by dressing ladies' hair. 

 She had taken to heart the condition of the poor in time 

 of sickness, and got leave, two or three years before, to use the 

 unoccupied vestry of Dr. Channing's church, and fitted it up 

 with beds. She took in the first sick person she came across, 

 and others one by one, maintaining them as well as herself by 

 her trade. She was a Roman Catholic, but had a great love 

 for the Unitarians and their ways, though she shuddered at 

 their doctrines ! When the church was pulled down, some of 

 the ladies belonging to it raised a fund to fit up a house : they 

 wished to call it the Ryan Home ; but this was utterly opposed 



# At the public schools he noted the dialect : " The Massachusetts tune 

 is at the same time drawling and bounding ; proceeding in a succession of 

 slow leaps, something like the motion of a Truncatella." 



