The Underground Railroad, A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c. E-Book

William Still

• Herausgeber: Charles River Editors
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 2009

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The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c. is a great resource of first hand accounts of the underground railroad.

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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, A RECORD OF FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES, LETTERS, &C.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE.

SETH CONCKLIN.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM REV. N.R. JOHNSTON.

LETTERS FROM LEVI COFFIN.

McKIERNON’S LETTER.

WM. STILL’S ANSWER.

THE SEPARATION.

UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD LETTERS.

LETTER FROM THOMAS GARRETT (U.G.R.R. DEPOT).

LETTER FROM MISS G.A. LEWIS (U.G.R.R. DEPOT).

LETTER FROM S.H. GAY, ESQ., EX-EDITOR OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD AND NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

LETTER FROM JOHN H. HILL, A FUGITIVE, APPEALING IN BEHALF OF A POOR SLAVE IN PETERSBURG, VA.

LETTER FROM J. BIGELOW, ESQ.

LETTER FROM HAM & EGGS, SLAVE (U.G.R.R. AG’T).

LETTER FROM REV H. WILSON (U.G.R.R. AG’T).

LETTER FROM SHERIDAN FORD, IN DISTRESS.

LETTER FROM E.F. PENNYPACKER (U.G.R.R. DEPOT).

LETTER FROM JOS. C. BUSTILL (U.G.R.R. DEPOT).

LETTER FROM A SLAVE SECRETED IN RICHMOND.

LETTER FROM G.S. NELSON (U.G.R.R. DEPOT).

LETTER FROM JOHN THOMPSON.

LETTER FROM “WM. PENN” (OF THE BAR).

LETTER FROM MISS THEODOCIA GILBERT.

WILLIAM PEEL, ALIAS WILLIAM BOX PEEL JONES. ARRIVED PER ERRICSON LINE OF STEAMERS, WRAPPED IN STRAW AND BOXED UP, APRIL, 1859.

DEATH OF ROMULUS HALL—NEW NAME GEORGE WEEMS.

JAMES MERCER, WM. H. GILLIAM, AND JOHN CLAYTON. STOWED AWAY IN A HOT BERTH.

LETTER FROM MRS. L.E. WHITE.

LETTER FROM WILLIAM HENRY GILLIAM.

JAMES MERCER’S LETTER.

JOHN H. HILL’S LETTER.

CLARISSA DAVIS. ARRIVED DRESSED IN MALE ATTIRE.

ANTHONY BLOW, ALIAS HENRY LEVISON. SECRETED TEN MONTHS BEFORE STARTING—EIGHT DAYS STOWED AWAY ON A STEAMER BOUND FOR PHILADELPHIA.

PERRY JOHNSON, OF ELKTON, MARYLAND. EYE KNOCKED OUT, ETC.

ISAAC FORMAN, WILLIAM DAVIS, AND WILLIS REDICK. HEARTS FULL OF JOY FOR FREEDOM—VERY ANXIOUS FOR WIVES IN SLAVERY.

WILLIS REDICK.

WILLIAM DAVIS.

JOSEPH HENRY CAMP. THE AUCTION BLOCK IS DEFEATED AND A SLAVE TRADER LOSES FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS.

SHERIDAN FORD. SECRETED IN THE WOODS—ESCAPES IN A STEAMER.

JOSEPH KNEELAND, ALIAS JOSEPH HULSON.

EX-PRESIDENT TYLER’S HOUSEHOLD LOSES AN ARISTOCRATIC “ARTICLE.”

EDWARD MORGAN, HENRY JOHNSON, JAMES AND STEPHEN BUTLER.

FROM THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD RECORDS.

HENRY PREDO. BROKE JAIL, JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND MADE HIS ESCAPE.

DANIEL HUGHES.

THOMAS ELLIOTT.

MARY EPPS, ALIAS EMMA BROWN—JOSEPH AND ROBERT ROBINSON. A SLAVE MOTHER LOSES HER SPEECH AT THE SALE OF HER CHILD—BOB ESCAPES FROM HIS MASTER, A TRADER, WITH $1500 IN NORTH CAROLINA MONEY.

GEORGE SOLOMON, DANIEL NEALL, BENJAMIN R. FLETCHER AND MARIA DORSEY.

HENRY BOX BROWN. ARRIVED BY ADAMS’ EXPRESS.

THE DELIVERER OF BOX BROWN—MEETING OF THE COLORED CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA.

TRIAL OF THE EMANCIPATORS OF COL. J.H. WHEELER’S SLAVES, JANE JOHNSON AND HER TWO LITTLE BOYS.

LETTER COPIED FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

THE ARRIVALS OF A SINGLE MONTH. SIXTY PASSENGERS CAME IN ONE MONTH—TWENTY-EIGHT IN ONE ARRIVAL—GREAT PANIC AND INDIGNATION MEETING—INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE FROM MASTERS AND FUGITIVES.

SAMUEL PATTISON’S LETTER.

INTERESTING LETTER FROM ISRAEL.

LETTER FROM JOHN AUGUSTA.

LETTER FROM MISS G. LEWIS ABOUT A PORTION OF THE SAME “MEMORABLE TWENTY-EIGHT.”

A SLAVE GIRL’S NARRATIVE. CORDELIA LONEY, SLAVE OF MRS. JOSEPH CAHELL (WIDOW OF THE LATE HON. JOSEPH CAHELL, OF VA.), OF FREDERICKSBURG, VA.—CORDELIA’S ESCAPE FROM HER MISTRESS IN PHILADELPHIA.

ARRIVAL OF JACKSON, ISAAC AND EDMONDSON TURNER FROM PETERSBURG. TOUCHING SCENE ON MEETING THEIR OLD BLIND FATHER AT THE U.G.R.R. DEPOT.

A WARNING TO SLAVE-HOLDERS.

ROBERT BROWN, ALIAS THOMAS JONES. CROSSING THE RIVER ON HORSEBACK IN THE NIGHT.

ANTHONY LONEY, ALIAS WILLIAM ARMSTEAD.

CORNELIUS SCOTT.

SAMUEL WILLIAMS, ALIAS JOHN WILLIAMS.

BARNABY GRIGBY, ALIAS JOHN BOYER, AND MARY ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE; FRANK WANZER, ALIAS ROBERT SCOTT; EMILY FOSTER, ALIAS ANN WOOD. (TWO OTHERS WHO STARTED WITH THEM WERE CAPTURED.)

WILLIAM JORDON, ALIAS WILLIAM PRICE

JOSEPH GRANT AND JOHN SPEAKS. TWO PASSENGERS ON THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD, VIA LIVERPOOL.

WILLIAM N. TAYLOR.

LOUISA BROWN.

JACOB WATERS AND ALFRED GOULDEN.

ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE. JEFFERSON PIPKINS, ALIAS DAVID JONES, LOUISA PIPKINS, ELIZABETH BRIT, HARRIET BROWN, ALIAS JANE WOOTON, GRACY MURRY, ALIAS SOPHIA SIMS, EDWARD WILLIAMS, ALIAS HENRY JOHNSON, CHAS. LEE, ALIAS THOMAS BUSHIER.

LETTER FROM JEFFERSON PIPKINS.

SEVERAL ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND. JEREMIAH W. SMITH AND WIFE JULIA.

EIGHT ARRIVALS: JAMES MASSEY, PERRY HENRY TRUSTY, GEORGE RHOADS, JAMES RHOADS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, SARAH ELIZABETH RHOADS AND CHILD, MARY ELIZABETH STEVENSON.

CHARLES THOMPSON, CARRIER OF “THE NATIONAL AMERICAN,” OFF FOR CANADA.

BLOOD FLOWED FREELY. ABRAM GALLOWAY AND RICHARD EDEN, TWO PASSENGERS SECRETED IN A VESSEL LOADED WITH SPIRITS OF TURPENTINE. SHROUDS PREPARED TO PREVENT BEING SMOKED TO DEATH.

JOHN PETTIFOOT.

EMANUEL T. WHITE.

THE ESCAPE OF A CHILD FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD.

LETTER FROM “J.B.”

LETTERS FROM E.L. STEVENS.

ESCAPE OF A YOUNG SLAVE MOTHER. LEFT HER LITTLE BABY-BOY, LITTLE GIRL AND HUSBAND BEHIND.

SAMUEL W. JOHNSON. ARRIVAL FROM THE “DAILY DISPATCH” OFFICE.

LETTER FROM SAMUEL W. JOHNSON TO HIS WIFE.

FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE.

ELIJAH HILTON. FROM RICHMOND.

SOLOMON BROWN. ARRIVED PER CITY OF RICHMOND.

WILLIAM HOGG, ALIAS JOHN SMITH. TRAVELER FROM MARYLAND.

TWO FEMALE PASSENGERS FEOM MARYLAND.

CAPTAIN F. AND THE MAYOR OF NORFOLK. TWENTY-ONE PASSENGERS SECRETED IN A BOAT. NOVEMBER, 1855.

ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES.

“FLEEING GIRL OF FIFTEEN,” IN MALE ATTIRE.

LETTER FROM J. BIGELOW, ESQ.

SECOND LETTER FROM LAWYER BIGELOW.

LETTER FROM THE MOTHER.

LETTERS FROM WILLIAM PENN.

FIVE YEARS AND ONE MONTH SECRETED.

ESCAPE OF JOHN HENRY HILL FROM THE SLAVE AUCTION IN RICHMOND, ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1853.

SECOND LETTER.

THIRD LETTER.

FOURTH LETTER.

FIFTH LETTER.

SIXTH LETTER.

SEVENTH LETTER.

EIGHTH LETTER.

NINTH LETTER.

TENTH LETTER.

ELEVENTH LETTER.

TWELFTH LETTER.

THIRTEENTH LETTER.

JAMES—(BROTHER OF JOHN HENRY HILL).

FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE.: ARCHER BARLOW, ALIAS EMIT ROBINS.

SAMUEL BUSH, ALIAS WILLIAM OBLEBEE.

JOHN SPENCER AND HIS SON WILLIAM, AND JAMES ALBERT.

HETTY SCOTT ALIAS MARGARET DUNCANS AND DAUGHTER PRISCILLA.

ROBERT FISHER.

HANSEL WAPLES.

ROSE ANNA TONNELL ALIAS MARIA HYDE.

MARY ENNIS ALIAS LICIA HEMMIN.

“SAM,” “ISAAC,” “PERRY,” “CHARLES,” AND “GREEN.”

FROM RICHMOND AND NORFOLK, VA.: WILLIAM B. WHITE, SUSAN BROOKS AND WILLIAM HENRY ATKINS.—STOWED AWAY IN THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF RICHMOND.

SUSAN BROOKS.

WILLIAM HENRY ATKINS.

FOUR ARRIVALS.

SECOND LETTER.

FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

CHARLES GILBERT.

LIBERTY OR DEATH.

SALT-WATER FUGITIVE.

FULL PARTICULARS OF THE ABDUCTION, ENSLAVING AND ESCAPE OF DAVIS. ATTEMPT TO SEDUCE HIM TO SLAVERY AGAIN.

COPY OF FIRST ORDER OF COMMITMENT.

COPY OF DISCHARGE.

COPY OF ORDER OF RE-COMMITMENT.

SAMUEL GREEN ALIAS WESLEY KINNARD, AUGUST 28th, 1854. TEN YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY FOR HAVING A COPY OF UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

AN IRISH GIRL’S DEVOTION TO FREEDOM.

FIRST LETTER.

SECOND LETTER.

THIRD LETTER.

FOURTH LETTER.

“SAM” NIXON ALIAS DR. THOMAS BAYNE.

LETTER FROM A. GOODWIN.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS

HEAVY REWARD.

SLAVE TRADER HALL IS FOILED.

ESCAPING IN A CHEST.

ISAAC WILLIAMS, HENRY BANKS, AND KIT NICKLESS. MONTHS IN A CAVE,—SHOT BY SLAVE-HUNTERS.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1856. ARRIVAL OF FIVE FROM THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS, ABOUT AUGUST 1ST, 1855.

DEEP FURROWS ON THE BACK. THOMAS MADDEN.

“PETE MATTHEWS,” ALIAS SAMUEL SPARROWS. “I MIGHT AS WELL BE IN THE PENITENTIARY, &C.”

“MOSES” ARRIVES WITH SIX PASSENGERS.

THOMAS GARRETT’S LETTER.

ESCAPED FROM “A WORTHLESS SOT.” JOHN ATKINSON.

WILLIAM BUTCHER, ALIAS WILLIAM T. MITCHELL. “HE WAS ABUSEFUL.”

“WHITE ENOUGH TO PASS.”

ESCAPING WITH MASTER’S CARRIAGES AND HORSES. HARRIET SHEPHARD, AND HER FIVE CHILDREN, WITH FIVE OTHER PASSENGERS.

EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS SECRETED. WASHINGTON SOMLOR, ALIAS JAMES MOORE.

ARTHUR FOWLER, ALIAS BENJAMIN JOHNSON.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS.

JAMES CRUMMILL, SAMUAL and TOLBERT JONES and HENRY HOWARD.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS ABOUT JANUARY FIRST, 1855.: VERENEA MERCER.

SLAVE-HOLDER IN MARYLAND WITH THREE COLORED WIVES. JAMES GRIFFIN ALIAS THOMAS BROWN.

CAPTAIN F. ARRIVES WITH NINE PASSENGERS.: NAMES OF PASSENGERS.

OWEN AND OTHO TAYLOR’S FLIGHT WITH HORSES, ETC. THREE BROTHERS, TWO OF THEM WITH WIVES AND CHILDREN.

HEAVY REWARD.

CAPTAIN F. ARRIVES WITH FOURTEEN “PRIME ARTICLES” ON BOARD.

NAMES OF THE “ARTICLES.”

SUNDRY ARRIVALS—LATTER PART OF DECEMBER, 1855, AND BEGINNING OF JANUARY, 1856.

PART OF THE ARRIVALS IN DECEMBER, 1855.

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1850. “AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND PERSONS ESCAPING FROM THE SERVICE OF THEIR MASTERS.”

THE SLAVE-HUNTING TRAGEDY IN LANCASTER COUNTY, IN SEPTEMBER, 1851. “TREASON AT CHRISTIANA.”

THE LAW OF TREASON, AS LAID DOWN BY JUDGE KANE.

COPY OF THE INDICTMENT.

WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT. FEMALE SLAVE IN MALE ATTIRE, FLEEING AS A PLANTER, WITH HER HUSBAND AS HER BODY SERVANT.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WM. FARMER, ESQ., OF LONDON, TO WM. LLOYD GARRISON, JUNE 26, 1851—"FUGITIVE SLAVES AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION.”

ARRIVALS FROM RICHMOND. LEWIS COBB AND NANCY BRISTER.

PASSENGERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. [BY SCHOONER.]

THOMAS CLINTON, SAUNEY PRY AND BENJAMIN DUCKET. PASSED OVER THE U.G.R.R., IN THE FALL OF 1856.

ARRIVALS IN APRIL, 1856.: CHARLES HALL, JAMES JOHNSON, CHARLES CARTER, GEORGE, AND JOHN LOGAN, JAMES HENRY WATSON, ZEBULON GREEN, LEWIS, AND PETER BURRELL, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, AND HIS WIFE—HARRIET TUBMAN, WITH FOUR PASSENGERS.

FIVE FROM GEORGETOWN CROSS ROADS. MOTHER AND CHILD FROM NORFOLK, VA., ETC.

PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND, 1857. WILLIAM HENRY MOODY, BELINDA BIVANS, ETC.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND.

ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., etc., 1857. GEORGE CARROLL, RANDOLPH BRANSON, JOHN CLAGART, AND WILLIAM ROYAN.

ARRIVAL FROM UNIONVILLE, 1857. ISRAEL TODD, AND BAZIL ALDRIDGE.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1857. ORDEE LEE, AND RICHARD J. BOOCE.

ARRIVAL FROM CAMBRIDGE, 1857.

BENJAMIN ROSS, AND HIS WIFE HARRIET. FLED FROM CAROLINE COUNTY, EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND, JUNE, 1857.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1857. WILLIAM JACKSON.

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1857. JOHN WRIGHT AND WIFE, ELIZABETH ANN, AND CHARLES CONNOR.

THE WIFE’S STATEMENT

ARRIVAL FROM ALEXANDRIA, 1857. OSCAR D. BALL, AND MONTGOMERY GRAHAM.

THE ACTING COMMITTEE

ARRIVAL FROM UNIONVILLE, 1857. CAROLINE ALDRIDGE AND JOHN WOOD.

ARRIVAL FROM NEW ORLEANS, 1857. JAMES CONNER, SHOT IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY.

ANOTHER SLAVE HUNT IN PHILADELPHIA.

ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. HARRISON CARY.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1857. JOE ELLIS.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. CHRISTOPHER GREEN AND WIFE, ANN MARIA, AND SON NATHAN.

ARRIVAL FROM GEORGETOWN CROSS-ROADS, 1857. LEEDS WRIGHT AND ABRAM TILISON.

ARRIVAL FROM ALEXANDRIA. WILLIAM TRIPLETT AND THOMAS HARPER.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. HARRY WISE.

ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA. ABRAM WOODERS.

ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. GEORGE JOHNSON, THOMAS AND ADAM SMITH.

FOUR ABLE-BODIED “ARTICLES” IN ONE ARRIVAL, 1857. EDWARD, AND JOSEPH HAINES, THOMAS HARRIS, AND JAMES SHELDON.

ARRIVAL FROM ARLINGTON, MD. 1857. JOHN ALEXANDER BUTLER, WILLIAM HENRY HIPKINS, JOHN HENRY MOORE AND GEORGE HILL.

FIVE PASSENGERS, 1857. ELIZA JANE JOHNSON, HARRIET STEWART, AND HER DAUGHTER MARY ELIZA, WILLIAM COLE, AND HANSON HALL.

ARRIVAL FROM HOWARD CO., MD., 1857. BILL COLE AND HANSON.

ARRIVAL FROM PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD. “JIM BELLE.”

ARRIVAL FROM RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, 1857. PASCAL QUANTENCE.

ARRIVAL FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1857. HARRY GRIMES, GEORGE UPSHER, AND EDWARD LEWIS.

EDWARD LEWIS.

ALFRED HOLLON, GEORGE AND CHARLES N. RODGERS.

ARRIVAL FROM KENT COUNTY, 1857. SAMUEL BENTON, JOHN ALEXANDER, JAMES HENRY, AND SAMUEL TURNER.

ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE COUNTY, 1857. ELIZABETH WILLIAMS.

MARY COOPER AND MOSES ARMSTEAD, 1857.

ARRIVAL FROM NEAR WASHINGTON, D.C. JOHN JOHNSON AND LAWRENCE THORNTON.

HON. L. McLANE’S PROPERTY, SOON AFTER HIS DEATH, TRAVELS viâ THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD.—WILLIAM KNIGHT, ESQ., LOSES A SUPERIOR “ARTICLE.” JIM SCOTT, TOM PENNINGTON, SAM SCOTT, BILL SCOTT, ABE BACON, AND JACK WELLS.

ARRIVAL FROM HARFORD CO., 1857. JOHN MYERS.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1857. WILLIAM LEE, SUSAN JANE BOILE AND AMARIAN LUCRETIA RISTER.

ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA. 1857. WILLIAM CARNEY AND ANDREW ALLEN.

ARRIVAL FROM HOOPESVILLE, MD., 1857. JAMES CAIN, “GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON,” AND ANNA PERRY.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858. GEORGE RUSSELL AND JAMES HENRY THOMPSON.

ARRIVAL FROM QUEEN ANN COUNTY, 1858. CATHARINE JONES AND SON HENRY, ETNA ELIZABETH DAUPHUS, AND GEORGE NELSON WASHINGTON.

ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE. ELIJAH BISHOP AND WILLIAM WILLIAMSON.

ARRIVAL FROM DUNWOODY COUNTY, 1858. DARIUS HARRIS.

ARRIVED FROM ALEXANDRIA, VA., 1857. TOWNSEND DERRIX.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858. EDWARD CARROLL.

ARRIVAL FROM PETERSBURG, 1858. JAMES MASON.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. ROBERT CARR.

ARRIVAL OF A PARTY OF SIX, 1858. PLYMOUTH CANNON, HORATIO WILKINSON, LEMUEL MITCHELL, JOSIAH MITCHELL, GEORGE HENRY BALLARD, AND JOHN MITCHELL.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858. EBENEZER ALLISON.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858. JOHN THOMPSON CARR, ANN MOUNTAIN AND CHILD, AND WILLIAM BOWLER.

ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE, 1858. ROBERTA TAYLOR.

ARRIVAL FROM HIGHTSTOWN, 1858. ROBERT THOMPSON (A PREACHER).

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858. ALFRED S. THORNTON.

ARRIVAL FROM BELLEAIR. JULIUS SMITH, WIFE MARY, AND BOY JAMES, HENRY AND EDWARD SMITH, AND JACK CHRISTY.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858. JOHN WESLEY COMBASH, JACOB TAYLOR, AND THOMAS EDWARD SKINNER.

ARRIVAL FROM NEW MARKET, 1858. ELIJAH SHAW.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858. MARY FRANCES MELVIN, ELIZA HENDERSON, AND NANCY GRANTHAM.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858. ORLANDO J. HUNT.

ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA., 1858. WILLIAM MACKEY.

ARRIVAL FROM NEAR BALTIMORE, 1858. HENRY TUCKER.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858. PETER NELSON. (RESEMBLED AN IRISHMAN.)

ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, 1858. MARY JONES AND SUSAN BELL.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858. WILLIAM CARPENTER.

ARRIVAL FROM THE OLD DOMINION. NINE VERY FINE “ARTICLES.” LEW JONES, OSCAR PAYNE, MOSE WOOD, DAVE DIGGS, JACK, HEN, AND BILL DADE, AND JOE BALL.

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1858. GEORGE LAWS AND COMRADE—TIED AND HOISTED WITH BLOCK AND TACKLE, TO BE COWHIDED.

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1858. JOHN WEEMS, ALIAS JACK HERRING.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1858. RUTH HARPER, GEORGE ROBINSON, PRISCILLA GARDENER, AND JOSHUA JOHN ANDERSON.

ARRIVAL FROM NORTH CAROLINA AND DELAWARE. “DICK BEESLY”,MURRAY YOUNG AND CHARLES ANDREW BOLDEN.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. JOHN JANNEY, TALBOT JOHNSON, SAM GROSS, PETER GROSS, JAMES HENRY JACKSON, AND SAM SMITH.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. BIRTH-DAY PRESENT FROM THOMAS GARRETT.

SECOND LETTER FROM THOMAS GARRETT.

ARRIVAL FROM THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1858. REBECCA JACKSON AND DAUGHTER, AND ROBERT SHORTER.

ARRIVAL FROM HONEY BROOK TOWNSHIP, 1858. FRANK CAMPBELL.

ARRIVAL FROM ALEXANDRIA, VA., 1858. RICHARD BAYNE, CARTER DOWLING AND BENJAMIN TAYLOR.

ARRIVAL FROM THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. HANSON WILLIAMS, NACE SHAW, GUSTA YOUNG, AND DANIEL M’NORTON SMITH.

CROSSING THE BAY IN A SKIFF. WILLIAM THOMAS COPE, JOHN BOICE GREY, HENRY BOICE AND ISAAC WHITE.

ARRIVAL FROM KENT COUNTY, MD., 1858. ASBURY IRWIN, EPHRAIM ENNIS, AND LYDIA ANN JOHNS.

ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, 1858. JOSEPHINE ROBINSON.

ARRIVAL FROM CECIL COUNTY, 1858. ROBERT JOHNS AND HIS WIFE “SUE ANN.”

ARRIVAL FROM GEORGETOWN, D.C., 1858. PERRY CLEXTON, JIM BANKS AND CHARLES NOLE.

ARRIVAL FROM SUSSEX COUNTY, 1858. JACOB BLOCKSON, GEORGE ALLIGOOD, JIM ALLIGOOD, AND GEORGE LEWIS.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS IN 1859. SARAH ANN MILLS, Boonsborough; CAROLINE GASSWAY, Mt. Airy; LEVIN HOLDEN, Laurel; WILLIAM JAMES CONNER, with his wife, child, and four brothers; JAMES LAZARUS, Delaware; RICHARD WILLIAMS, Richmond, Virginia; SYDNEY HOPKINS and HENRY WHEELER, Havre de Grace.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859. CORNELIUS HENRY JOHNSON. FACE CANADA-WARD FOR YEARS.

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1858. THEOPHILUS COLLINS, ANDREW JACKSON BOYCE, HANDY BURTON AND ROBERT JACKSON. A DESPERATE, BLOODY STRUGGLE—GUN, KNIFE AND FIRE SHOVEL, USED BY AN INFURIATED MASTER.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859. STEPNEY BROWN.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859. JIM KELL, CHARLES HEATH, WILLIAM CARLISLE, CHARLES RINGGOLD, THOMAS MAXWELL, AND SAMUEL SMITH.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS, 1859. JOHN EDWARD LEE, JOHN HILLIS, CHARLES ROSS, JAMES RYAN, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, EDWARD WOOD, CORNELIUS FULLER AND HIS WIFE HARRIET, JOHN PINKET, ANSAL CANNON, AND JAMES BROWN.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859. JAMES BROWN.

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1859. EDWARD, JOHN, AND CHARLES HALL.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1859. JAMES TAYLOR, ALBERT GROSS, AND JOHN GRINAGE.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND (1859) AND OTHER PLACES. JAMES ANDY WILKINS, and wife LUCINDA, with their little boy, CHARLES, CHARLES HENRY GROSS, A WOMAN with her TWO CHILDREN—one in her arms—JOHN BROWN, JOHN ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENRY SMALLWOOD.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859. HENRY JONES AND TURNER FOSTER.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. TWO YOUNG MOTHERS, EACH WITH BABES IN THEIR ARMS—ANNA ELIZABETH YOUNG AND SARAH JANE BELL—WHIPPED TILL THE BLOOD FLOWED.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. JOHN WESLEY SMITH, ROBERT MURRAY, SUSAN STEWART, AND JOSEPHINE SMITH.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA. HENRY FIELDS, CHARLES RINGGOLD, WILLIAM RINGGOLD, ISAAC NEWTON AND JOSEPH THOMAS.

ARRIVAL FROM SEAFORD, 1859. ROBERT BELL AND TWO OTHERS.

ARRIVAL FROM TAPPS’ NECK, MD., 1859. LEWIS WILSON, JOHN WATERS, ALFRED EDWARDS AND WILLIAM QUINN.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859. ANN MARIA JACKSON AND HER SEVEN CHILDREN—MARY ANN, WILLIAM HENRY, FRANCES SABRINA, WILHELMINA, JOHN EDWIN, EBENEZER THOMAS, AND WILLIAM ALBERT.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE. LEWIS LEE, ENOCH DAVIS, JOHN BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD DIXON, AND WILLIAM OLIVER.

ARRIVAL FROM DIFFERENT POINTS. JACOB BROWN, JAMES HARRIS, BENJAMIN PINEY, JOHN SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON, WILLIAM HUGHES, WESLEY WILLIAMS, ROSANNA JOHNSON, JOHN SMALLWOOD, AND HENRY TOWNSEND.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND, 1860. WILLIAM CHION AND HIS WIFE, EMMA, EVAN GRAFF, AND FOUR OTHERS.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1860. JENNY BUCHANAN. A KIND MASTER; JENNY CHASTISED ONE OF HIS SONS FOR AN INSULT, AND AS A PUNISHMENT SHE WAS SOLD—SEIZED FOR DEBT—SOLD A SECOND TIME.

ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE, 1860. WILLIAM BROWN, AND JAMES HENSON

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. PHILIP STANTON, RANDOLPH NICHOLS, AND THOMAS DOUGLASS.

ARRIVAL FROM FREDERICKSBURG, 1860. HENRY TUDLE AND WIFE, MARY WILLIAMS.

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND, 1860. SAM ARCHER, LEWIS PECK, DAVID EDWARDS, EDWARD CASTING, JOE HENRY, GEORGE AND ALBERT WHITE, JOSEPH C. JOHNSON, DAVID SNIVELY, AND HENRY DUNMORE.

CROSSING THE BAY IN A BATTEAU. SHARP CONTEST WITH PURSUERS ON WATER. FUGITIVES VICTORIOUS.

ARRIVAL FROM DORCHESTER CO., 1860. HARRIET TUBMAN’S LAST “TRIP” TO MARYLAND.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1860. JERRY MILLS, AND WIFE, DIANA, SON, CORNELIUS, AND TWO DAUGHTERS, MARGARET, AND SUSAN.

TWELVE MONTHS IN THE WOODS, 1860. HENRY COTTON.

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND. WILLIAM PIERCE.

A SLAVE CATCHER CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP. GEORGE F. ALBERTI PERSONATED BY A MEMBER OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE—A LADY FRIGHTENED BY A PLACARD.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858. HENRY LANGHORN alias WM. SCOTT.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859.

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND. JOHN WILLIAM DUNGY.—BROUGHT A PASS FROM EX. GOV. GREGORY.

“AUNT HANNAH MOORE.”

KIDNAPPING OF RACHEL AND ELIZABETH PARKER—MURDER OF JOSEPH C. MILLER IN 1851 AND 1852.

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1854. TUCKER WHITE.

ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK. MARY MILLBURN, alias LOUISA F. JONES, ESCAPED IN MALE ATTIRE.

ARRIVAL OF FIFTEEN FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. PER SCHOONER—TWICE SEARCHED—LANDED AT LEAGUE ISLAND. ISAAC FORMAN, HENRY WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, HARRIET TAYLOR, MARY BIRD, MRS. LEWEY, SARAH SAUNDERS, SOPHIA GRAY, HENRY GRAY, MARY GRAY, WINFIELD SCOTT, and three children.

THE CASE OF EUPHEMIA WILLIAMS, CLAIMED AS A FUGITIVE SLAVE UNDER THE FUGITIVE SLAVE-LAW AFTER HAVING LIVED IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS.

THE OVERSEER IS NOW EXAMINED.

From Miss MARY B. THOMAS.

HELPERS AND SYMPATHIZERS AT HOME AND ABROAD—INTERESTING LETTERS.

PAMPHLET, AND LETTERS FROM MRS. ANNA H. RICHARDSON, OF NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND. TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SLAVE.

LETTERS TO THE WRITER.

PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES.: ESTHER MOORE.

ABIGAIL GOODWIN.

FAITHFUL WORKERS IN THE CAUSE.

THOMAS GARRETT.

DANIEL GIBBONS.

LUCRETIA MOTT.

JAMES MILLER McKIM.

WILLIAM H. FURNESS, D.D.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

LEWIS TAPPAN

ELIJAH F. PENNYPACKER,

STATION MASTERS ON THE ROAD.

WILLIAM WRIGHT.

DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL.

THOMAS SHIPLEY.This account of the Life of Thomas Shipley is abridged from a Memoir by Dr. Isaac Parrish, published in 1837.

ROBERT PURVIS

JOHN HUNN.

SAMUEL RHOADS

GEORGE CORSON

CHARLES D. CLEVELAND.

WILLIAM WHIPPER.

ISAAC T. HOPPER.

SAMUEL D. BURRIS,

MARIANN, GRACE ANNA, AND ELIZABETH R. LEWIS.

CUNNINGHAM’S RACHE.

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER.

The

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

A RECORD

OF

FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE, LETTERS, &C.,

Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles

OF THE

Slaves in their efforts of Freedom,

AS RELATED

BY THEMSELVES AND OTHERS, OR WITNESSED BY THE AUTHOR;

TOGETHER WITH

SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE LARGEST STOCKHOLDERS, AND

MOST LIBERAL AIDERS AND ADVISERS,

OF THE ROAD.

BY

WILLIAM STILL,

For many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philidelphia, and Chairman,

of the Acting Vigilent Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of

the Underground Rail Road.

Illustrated with 70 fine Engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and

Portraits from Photographs from Life.

Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant that has escaped from his master unto thee.—Deut. xxiii. 16.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

W.M. STILL,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

DEDICATION

TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM, TO HEROIC FUGITIVES AND THEIR

POSTERITY IN THE UNITED STATES,

THESE MEMORIALS OF THEIR LOVE OF LIBERTY

ARE INSCRIBED

By the AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

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WHEREAS, THE POSITION OF WILLIAM Still in the vigilance committee connected with the “Underground Rail Road,” as its corresponding secretary, and chairman of its active sub-committee, gave him peculiar facilities for collecting interesting facts pertaining to this branch of the anti-slavery service; therefore

Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society request him to compile and publish his personal reminiscences and experiences relating to the “Underground Rail Road.”

In compliance with this Resolution, unanimously passed at the closing meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society held last May in Philadelphia, the writer, in the following pages, willingly and he hopes satisfactorily discharges his duty.

In these Records will be found interesting narratives of the escapes of many men, women and children, from the prison-house of bondage; from cities and plantations; from rice swamps and cotton fields; from kitchens and mechanic shops; from Border States and Gulf States; from cruel masters and mild masters;—some guided by the north star alone, penniless, braving the perils of land and sea, eluding the keen scent of the blood-hound as well as the more dangerous pursuit of the savage slave-hunter; some from secluded dens and caves of the earth, where for months and years they had been hidden away waiting for the chance to escape; from mountains and swamps, where indescribable suffering from hunger and other privations had patiently been endured. Occasionally fugitives came in boxes and chests, and not infrequently some were secreted in steamers and vessels, and in some instances journeyed hundreds of miles in skiffs. Men; disguised in female attire and women dressed in the garb of men have under very trying circumstances triumphed in thus making their way to freedom. And here and there when all other modes of escape seemed cut off, some, whose fair complexions have rendered them indistinguishable from their Anglo-Saxon brethren, feeling that they could endure the yoke no longer, with assumed airs of importance, such as they had been accustomed to see their masters show when traveling, have taken the usual modes of conveyance and have even braved the most scrutinizing inspection of slaveholders, slave-catchers and car conductors, who were ever on the alert to catch those who were considered base and white enough to practice such deception. Passes have been written and used by fugitives, with their masters’ and mistresses’ names boldly attached thereto, and have answered admirably as a protection, when passing through ignorant country districts of slave regions, where but few, either white or colored, knew how to read or write correctly.

Not a few, upon arriving, of course, hardly had rags enough on them to cover their nakedness, even in the coldest weather.

It scarcely needs be stated that, as a general rule, the passengers of the U. G. R. R. were physically and intellectually above the average order of slaves.

They were determined to have liberty even at the cost of life.

The slave auction block indirectly proved to be in some respects a very active agent in promoting travel on the U. G. R. R., just as Jeff. Davis was an agent in helping to bring about the downfall of Slavery. The horrors of the block, as looked upon through the light of the daily heart-breaking separations it was causing to the oppressed, no pen could describe or mind imagine; hence it will be seen that many of the passengers, whose narratives will be found in this work, ascribed their first undying resolution to strike for freedom to the auction block or to the fear of soon having to take their chances thereon. But other agencies were at work in the South, which in various ways aided directly or tacitly the U. G. R. R. cause.

To refer in detail to any considerable number of these agents would be impossible, if necessary. Some there were who nobly periled their all for the freedom of the oppressed, whose sufferings and deeds of bravery must have a fitting place in this volume.

Where in history, modern or ancient, could be found a more Christlike exhibition of love and humanity, of whole-souled devotion to freedom, than was proven in the character of the hero, Seth Concklin, who lost his life while endeavoring to rescue from Alabama slavery the wife and children of Peter Still?

So also do the heroic and faithful services of Samuel D. Burris demand special reference and commemoration, for his connection with the U. G. R. R. cost him not only imprisonment and the most barbarous treatment, but likewise the loss of his freedom. He was sold on the auction block.

Here too come the overwhelming claims of S. A. Smith, who at the sad cost to himself of many of the best years of his life in the Richmond penitentiary, boxed up Henry Box Brown and others in Richmond, and committed them to Adams’ Express office, to be carried in this most extraordinary manner to freedom.

We must not omit from these records the boldness and the hazard of the unparalleled undertakings of Captains Dray ton, Lee, Baylis, &c.

While the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia was in no wise responsible for the suffering incurred by many of those who helped the slave, yet in order to show how men were moved to lend an ear to those hungering and thirsting for freedom, and to what extent the relentless spirit of Slavery would go in wreaking vengeance upon them out of the many who were called upon to suffer thus, the individual cases here brought forward must suffice. Without introducing a few of such incidents the records would necessarily be incomplete.

Those who come after us seeking for information in regard to the existence, atrocity, struggles and destruction of Slavery, will have no trouble in finding this hydra-headed monster ruling and tyrannizing over Church and State, North and South, white and black, without let or hindrance, for at least several generations. Nor will posterity have any difficulty i^i finding the deeds of the brave and invincible opposers of Slavery, who in the language of Win. Lloyd Garrison, declared without concealment and without compromise: “I am in earnest, I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.”

While this resolute spirit actuated the hearts of all true abolitionists, it was a peculiar satisfaction and gratification to them to know that the slaves themselves were struggling and hungering for deliverance. Hence such evidence from this quarter never failed to meet with hearty sympathy and aid. But here the enemy was never willingly allowed to investigate.

The slave and his particular friends could only meet in private to transact the business of the Underground Rail Road ground. All others were outsiders. The right hand was not to know what the left hand was doing.

Stockholders did not expect any dividends, nor did they require special reports to be published. Indeed prudence often dictated that even the recipients of our favor should not know the names of their helpers, and vice versa they did not desire to know theirs.

The risk of aiding fugitives was never lost sight of, and the safety of all concerned called for still tongues. Hence sad and thrilling stories were listened to, and made deep impressions; but as a universal rule, friend and fugitive parted with only very vivid recollection of the secret interview and with mutual sympathy; for a length of time no narratives were written. The writer, in common with others, took no notes. But after the restoration of Peter Still, his own brother (the kidnapped and the ransomed), after forty years’ cruel separation from his mother, the wonderful discovery and joyful reunion, the idea forced itself upon his mind that all over this wide and extended country thousands of mothers and children, separated by Slavery, were in a similar way living without the slightest knowledge of each other’s whereabouts, praying and weeping without ceasing, as did this mother and son. Under these reflections it seemed reasonable to hope that by carefully gathering the narratives of Underground Rail Road passengers, in some way or other some of the bleeding and severed hearts might be united and comforted; and by the use that might be made privately, if not publicly, of just such facts as would naturally be embraced in their brief narratives, re-unions might take place. For years it was the writer’s privilege to see many travelers, to receive from their own lips the most interesting and in many cases exceedingly thrilling accounts of their struggles for liberty, and to learn who had held them in bondage, how they had been treated, what prompted them to escape, and whom that were near, and dear to them they had left in chains. Their hopes, fears and sufferings were thus recorded in a book. It scarcely need be added with no expectation, however, that the day was so near when these things could be published.

It is now a source of great satisfaction to feel that not only these numerous narratives may be published, but that in connection therewith, for the completeness of the work, many interesting private letters from fugitives in Canada, slaves in the South, Underground Rail Road conductors arid stockholders, and last and least, from slaveholders, in the bargain—all having a direct bearing on the mysterious road.

In the use of these various documents, the writer begs to assure his readers that the most scrupulous, care has been taken to furnish artless stories, simple facts,—to resort to no coloring to make the book seem romantic, as he is fully persuaded that any exaggerations or Additions of his own could not possibly equal in surpassing interest, the original and natural tales given under circumstances, when life and death seemed about equally balanced in the scale, and fugitives in transit were making their way from Slavery to Freedom, with the horrors of the Fugitive Slave-law staring them in the face.

Thousands were either directly or indirectly interested in this enterprise, and in all probability two generations will pass away before many who are now living witnesses to the truth of these records will cease to bring vividly to mind the hour and circumstance when for the first time they were led to resort to this road to escape the “barbarism” of Slavery.

Far be it from the writer to assume, however, that these Records cover the entire Underground Rail Road operations. Many local branches existed in different parts of the country, which neither time nor limit would allow mention of in this connection. Good men labored and suffered, who deserve to be held in the highest admiration by the friends of Freedom, whose names may be looked for in vain in these pages; for which reason some may be inclined to complain. With respect to these points it may here be remarked that in gathering narratives from unwritten sources—from memory simply—no amount of pains or labor could possibly succeed in making a trustworthy history. The writer has deemed it best, therefore, to confine himself to facts coming within his personal knowledge, and to the records of his own preserving, which, by the way, are quite too voluminous to be all used in this work. Frequent abridgements and omissions must be made.

The writer is fully conscious of his literary imperfections. The time allotted him from other pressing duties is, moreover, exceedingly limited. Nevertheless he feels that he owes it to the cause of Freedom, and to the Fugitives and their posterity in particular, to bring the doings of the U. G. R. R. before the public in the most truthful manner; not for the purpose of amusing the reader, but to show what efforts were made and what success was gained for Freedom under difficulties. That some professing a love of liberty at this late date will be disposed to criticise some of the methods resorted to in aiding in the escape of fugitives as herein recounted, may be expected. While.the writer holds the labors of Abolitionists generally in very grateful appreciation, he hopes not to be regarded as making any invidious discriminations in favor of the individual friends of the slave, whose names may be brought out prominently in this work, as it is not with the Anti-Slavery question proper that he is dealing, but simply the Underground Rail Road. In order, therefore, fittingly to bring the movements of this enterprise to light, the writer could not justly confine himself to the Acting Committee, but felt constrained to bring in others—Friends—who never forsook the fugitive, who visited him in prison, clothed him when naked, fed him when hungry, wept with him when he wept, and cheered him with their warmest sympathies and friendship. In addition to the names of the Acting Committee, he has felt constrained to beg the portraits of the following stockholders and advisers of the Road, whose names will be found on the next page, and in thus presenting a brief sketch of their labors, he feels that the true friends of the slave in recognizing them in this connection with many of the once Fugitives (now citizens), will regard it as a tribute to the Anti-Slavery cause rather than the individuals themselves.

WILLIAM STILL.

Philadelphia, January, 1872.

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SETH CONCKLIN.

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IN THE LONG LIST OF names who have suffered and died in the cause of freedom, not one, perhaps, could be found whose efforts to redeem a poor family of slaves were more Christlike than Seth Concklin’s, whose noble and daring spirit has been so long completely shrouded in mystery. Except John Brown, it is a question, whether his rival could be found with respect to boldness, disinterestedness and willingness to be sacrificed for the deliverance of the oppressed.

By chance one day he came across a copy of the Pennsylvania Freeman, containing the story of Peter Still, “the Kidnapped and the Ransomed,"—how he had been torn away from his mother, when a little boy six years old; how, for forty years and more, he had been compelled to serve under the yoke, totally destitute as to any knowledge of his parents’ whereabouts; how the intense love of liberty and desire to get back to his mother had unceasingly absorbed his mind through all these years of bondage; how, amid the most appalling discouragements, prompted alone by his undying determination to be free and be reunited with those from whom he had been sold away, he contrived to buy himself; how, by extreme economy, from doing over-work, he saved up five hundred dollars, the amount of money required for his ransom, which, with his freedom, he, from necessity, placed unreservedly in the confidential keeping of a Jew, named Joseph Friedman, whom he had known for a long time and could venture to trust,—how he had further toiled to save up money to defray his expenses on an expedition in search of his mother and kindred; how, when this end was accomplished, with an earnest purpose he took his carpet-bag in his hand, and his heart throbbing for his old home and people, he turned his mind very privately towards Philadelphia, where he hoped, by having notices read in the colored churches to the effect that “forty-one or forty-two years before two little boysA were kidnapped and carried South"—that the memory of some of the older members might recall the circumstances, and in this way he would be aided in his ardent efforts to become restored to them.

A: Sons of Levin and Sidney—the last names of his parents he was too young to remember.

And, furthermore, Seth Concklin had read how, on arriving in Philadelphia, after traveling sixteen hundred miles, that almost the first man whom Peter Still sought advice from was his own unknown brother (whom he had never seen or heard of), who made the discovery that he was the long-lost boy, whose history and fate had been enveloped in sadness so long, and for whom his mother had shed so many tears and offered so many prayers, during the long years of their separation; and, finally, how this self-ransomed and restored captive, notwithstanding his great success, was destined to suffer the keenest pangs of sorrow for his wife and children, whom he had left in Alabama bondage.

Seth Concklin was naturally too singularly sympathetic and humane not to feel now for Peter, and especially for his wife and children left in bonds as bound with them. Hence, as Seth was a man who seemed wholly insensible to fear, and to know no other law of humanity and right, than whenever the claims of the suffering and the wronged appealed to him, to respond unreservedly, whether those thus injured were amongst his nearest kin or the greatest strangers,—it mattered not to what race or clime they might belong,—he, in the spirit of the good Samaritan, owning all such as his neighbors, volunteered his services, without pay or reward, to go and rescue the wife and three children of Peter Still.

The magnitude of this offer can hardly be appreciated. It was literally laying his life on the altar of freedom for the despised and oppressed whom he had never seen, whose kins-folk even he was not acquainted with. At this juncture even Peter was not prepared to accept this proposal. He wanted to secure the freedom of his wife and children as earnestly as he had ever desired to see his mother, yet he could not, at first, hearken to the idea of having them rescued in the way suggested by Concklin, fearing a failure.

To J.M. McKim and the writer, the bold scheme for the deliverance of Peter’s family was alone confided. It was never submitted to the Vigilance Committee, for the reason, that it was not considered a matter belonging thereto. On first reflection, the very idea of such an undertaking seemed perfectly appalling. Frankly was he told of the great dangers and difficulties to be encountered through hundreds of miles of slave territory. Seth was told of those who, in attempting to aid slaves to escape had fallen victims to the relentless Slave Power, and had either lost their lives, or been incarcerated for long years in penitentiaries, where no friendly aid could be afforded them; in short, he was plainly told, that without a very great chance, the undertaking would cost him his life. The occasion of this interview and conversation, the seriousness of Concklin and the utter failure in presenting the various obstacles to his plan, to create the slightest apparent misgiving in his mind, or to produce the slightest sense of fear or hesitancy, can never be effaced from the memory of the writer. The plan was, however, allowed to rest for a time.

In the meanwhile, Peter’s mind was continually vacillating between Alabama, with his wife and children, and his new-found relatives in the North. Said a brother, “If you cannot get your family, what will you do? Will you come North and live with your relatives?” “I would as soon go out of the world, as not to go back and do all I can for them,” was the prompt reply of Peter.

The problem of buying them was seriously considered, but here obstacles quite formidable lay in the way. Alabama laws utterly denied the right of a slave to buy himself, much less his wife and children. The right of slave masters to free their slaves, either by sale or emancipation, was positively prohibited by law. With these reflections weighing upon his mind, having stayed away from his wife as long as he could content himself to do, he took his carpet-bag in his hand, and turned his face toward Alabama, to embrace his family in the prison-house of bondage.