DEAR SIR:--Within a few days past a colored man has been
traversing the streets of this city, exciting the sympathies of
the benevolent by the recital of a tale of the hardships he has
lately passed through. He represents himself to be Tucker White,
your slave, a carpenter by trade, and that he escaped from your
service last Christmas. He is quite dark in complexion, rather
over the medium size, and a little lame; the latter, probably,
from the effects of frost on his feet, from which, he alleges,
he suffered severely.
He seems to be well acquainted with the adjoining localities,
but altogether his narrative is almost incredible, and I am
therefore induced to make the inquiry whether such a man has
escaped from your service or lately left your neighborhood. We
are perfectly flooded with such vagrants. It would be a great
relief if some measures could be resorted to to keep them under
legal restraint. An answer addressed to No. 73 South 4th Street,
above Walnut, will reach me, and oblige, Yours, &c.