Northern states a disagreeable thing for the negro.[119] [114] See an article entitled "An Underground Railway," by Robert W. Carroll, of Cincinnati, O., in the _Cincinnati Times-Star_, Aug. 19, 1890; also Smedley, _Underground Railroad_, p. 182; and J. B. Robinson, _Pictures of Slavery and Anti-Slavery_, pp. 293, 294. [115] _History of Henry County, Indiana_, p. 126 _et seq._ [116] Elizabeth Buffum Chace, _Anti-Slavery Reminiscences_, p. 19. [117] _Ibid._, p. 18. [118] Lydia Maria Child, _Life of Isaac T. Hopper_, pp. 388, 389. [119] See President Fairchild's pamphlet, _The Underground Railroad_. Abolitionists were frequently subjected to espionage; the arrival of a party of colored people at a house after daybreak would arouse suspicion and cause the place to be closely watched; a chance meeting with a neighbor in the highway would perhaps be the means by which some abolitionists' secrets would become known. In such cases it did not always follow that the discovery brought ruin upon the head of the offender, even when the discoverer was a person of pro-slavery views. Nevertheless, accidents of the kind described served to fasten the suspicions of a locality upon the offender. Gravner and Hannah Marsh, Quakers, living near Downington, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, became known to their pro-slavery neighbors as agents on the Underground Road. These neighbors were not disposed to inform against them, although one woman, intent on finding out how many slaves they aided in a year, with much watching counted sixty.[120] The Rev. John Cross, a Presbyterian minister living in Elba Township, Knox County, Illinois, about the year 1840, had neighbors that insisted on his answering to the law for the help he gave to some fugitives. Mr. Cross made no secret of his principles and accordingly became game for his enemies. One of these was Jacob Kightlinger, who observed a wagon-load of negroes being taken in the direction of Mr. Cross's house. Investigation by Mr. Kightlinger and several of his friends proved their suspicions to be true, and by their action Mr. Cross was indicted for harboring fugitive slaves.[121] [120] Smedley, _Underground Railroad_, p. 139. [121] _History of Knox County, Ill._, pp. 213, 214. Mr. Kightlinger's account of this affair is published under his own name.