At Crab Orchard I found a man that was born in the State of New York.

He had been a soldier at Hull's surrender, at Detroit, in the war of 1812, with Great Britain.

From Detroit he had made his way into Kentucky, had married a rich wife with many slaves, and had become a vehement partisan for slavery.

But because he was born in the same State with myself, and because I could tell him much about that people that were once his people, he was glad to have me stop with him.

Being old and choleric, he would go off into a fierce passion against the abolitionists.