[18] _Cong. Herald_, May 13, 1861, quoted in American Missionary Association, 15th annual report, 1861, p. 28. There is evidence that the Fugitive Slave Law was used in some cases to strike fear into the hearts of Negroes in order to cause them to abandon their property. _The Liberator_ of October 25, 1850, quotes the _Detroit Free Press_ to the effect that land speculators have been scaring the Negroes in some places in the north in order to get possession of their properties. [19] American Anti-slavery Society, _Twenty-seventh Annual Report_, 1861, p. 49. [20] In _The Liberator_ of July 30, 1852, a letter from Hiram Wilson, at St. Catharines, says: "Arrivals from slavery are frequent." [21] _The Voice of the Fugitive_, July 29, 1852. [22] _Ibid._, July 1, 1852. [23] _St. Catharine's Journal_, quoted in _The Voice of the Fugitive_, September 23, 1852. [24] Quoted in _The Liberator_, September 12, 1851. [25] _Liberator_, February 14, 1851. [26] _The Voice of the Fugitive_, August 27, 1851. [27] Quoted in American Anti-slavery Society, Twenty-seventh Report, 1861. [28] American Anti-slavery Society, Twenty-seventh Annual Report, 1861, pp. 48-49. [29] P. 157. [30] Rhodes, _History of the United States_, I, 210. [31] _Ibid._, I, 224-25. See also Ward, _Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro_, p. 127. [32] _Ibid._, I, 222-23. See also _The Voice of the Fugitive_, June 3 and July 1, 1852. [33] Schauler, _History of the United States_, V, 290-291. [34] Troy, _Hairbreadth Escapes_, pp. 39-43. [35] _Liberator_, June 11, 1852. See also _The Voice of the Fugitive_, June 17, 1852. [36] _Ibid._, July 30, 1852. [37] _Liberator_, Sept. 12, 1851; _The Voice of the Fugitive_, Sept. 24, 1851; Anti-slavery Tracts, New Series, No. 15, p. 19. [38] Sandusky _Commercial Register_, Oct. 21, 1852; _Liberator_, Oct. 29, 1852; Anti-slavery Tracts, New Series, No. 15, p. 24. [39] _The Voice of the Fugitive_, February 12, 1851. [40] Ninth Annual Report, N. Y., 1855, p. 47 [41] American Anti-slavery Society, Eleventh Annual Report, 1851, p. 100. [42] _The Voice of the Fugitive_ of January 15, 1851, and November 18, 1852. [43] _Ibid._, January 1 and May 20, 1852. [44] Troy, _Hair-breadth Escapes_, pp. 108 and 122. [45] "The Canadian government reckoned that there had been not less than 40,000 Canadian enlistments in the American Army during the Civil War."--Goldwin Smith's _Correspondence_ (letter to Moberly Bell), p. 377. RICHARD HILL[1]