"There no mother's eye is near them, There no mother's ear can hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them.... "Oh, when weary, sad, and slow From the fields at night they go, Faint with toil, and racked with pain, To their cheerless homes again,-- There no brother's voice shall greet them There no father's welcome meet them."] [Footnote 220: Still, Underground Railroad, 443.] [Footnote 221: Ibid., 448.] [Footnote 222: Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, 293.] [Footnote 223: Still, Underground Railroad, 27.] [Footnote 224: F. L. Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom, 157.] [Footnote 225: F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 444.] [Footnote 226: W. I. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution; Macon (Ga.) Telegram, Nov. 27, 1838.] [Footnote 227: Ball, Mammoth Pictorial Tour of United States, 54; F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 155.] [Footnote 228: W. I. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution; Macon (Ga.) Telegram, Nov. 27, 1838.] [Footnote 229: Liberator, April 12, 1839.] [Footnote 230: Wm. Parker, Freedman's Story, in Atlantic Monthly, February and March, 1866; Letter from Gerrit Smith, in Liberator, Dec. 28, 1838.] [Footnote 231: J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 93.] [Footnote 232: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 196.] [Footnote 233: Appendix D, No. 41; Antislavery Almanac, 74.] [Footnote 234: J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 83.] [Footnote 235: Appendix D, No. 41.] [Footnote 236: Smedley, The Underground Railroad, 26.] [Footnote 237: Lalor's Cyclopædia, I. 5; Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II. 58, 59.] [Footnote 238: Clarke, Antislavery Days, 81.] [Footnote 239: Smedley, The Underground Railroad, 35.] [Footnote 240: Ibid., 64, 138.] [Footnote 241: Ibid., 568-570.] [Footnote 242: Ibid., 172.] [Footnote 243: Ibid., 34.] [Footnote 244: Ibid., 146.] [Footnote 245: Smedley, Underground Railroad, 58.] [Footnote 246: Harriet, the Moses of her People.] [Footnote 247: Clarke, Antislavery Days, 81.] [Footnote 248: Liberator, March 2, 1860.] [Footnote 249: Pamphlet proposing a Defensive League of Freedom, 6.] [Footnote 250: Smedley, Underground Railroad, 241.] [Footnote 251: Ibid., 355.] [Footnote 252: Douglass, My Bondage and Freedom, 323.] [Footnote 253: J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 83.] [Footnote 254: Lalor's Cyclopædia, I. 5; Congressional Globe, 36 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 250.] [Footnote 255: Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II. 58, 59.] CHAPTER V. _PERSONAL LIBERTY LAWS._