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and Forty Years a Freeman." Rochester, 1861. Stewart (Rev. Austin). "The Black Man." Boston, Mass., 1863. "The Negro in the Rebellion." Boston, 1867. "Clotelle." Boston, 1867. "The Rising Sun." Boston, 1874. "Sketches of Places and People Abroad." 1854. Brown (Wm. Wells, M.D.). "An Apology for African Methodism." Tanner (Benj. T.). Baltimore, 1867. "The Underground Railroad." Still (William). Philadelphia, 1872. "The Colored Cadet at West Point." Flipper (H. O.), U. S. A. New York, 1877. "Music and Some Highly Musical People." Trotter (James M.). Boston, 1878. "My Recollections of African Methodism." Wayman (Bishop A. W.). Philadelphia, Pa., 1881. "First Lessons in Greek." Scarborough (W. S., A.M.). New York, 1882. "History of the Black Brigade." Clark (Peter H.) "Uncle Tom's Story of His Life." From 1789 to 1879. Henson (Rev. Josiah). Boston. "The Future of Africa." New York, 1862, Charles Scribner & Co. "The Greatness of Christ," and other Sermons. Crummell (Rev. Alexander, D.D.). T. Whittaker, 2 and 3 Bible House, New York, 1882. "Not a Man and Yet a Man." Whitman (A. A.). "Mixed Races." Sampson (John P.). Hampton, Va., 1881. "Poems." Wheatley (Phillis). London, England, 1773. "As a Slave and as a Freeman." Loguen (Bishop, J. W.). CHAPTER XIII. THE JOHN BROWN MEN. The subjoined correspondence was published in the _Republican_, J. K. Rukenbrod, editor, at Salem, Ohio, Wednesday, December 28, 1859. The beautiful spirit of self-sacrifice, the lofty devotion to the sublime principles of universal liberty, and the heroic welcome to the hour of martyrdom, invest these letters with intrinsic historic value. LETTER FROM EDWIN COPPOCK TO HIS UNCLE JOSHUA COPPOCK. CHARLESTON, VA., December 13, 1859. MY DEAR UNCLE: I seat myself by the stand to write for the _last_ time, to thee and thy family. Though far from home, and overtaken by misfortune, I have not forgotten you. Your generous hospitality toward me during my short stay with you last Spring is stamped indelibly upon my heart; and also the generosity bestowed upon my poor brother, at the same time, who now wanders an outcast from his native land. But thank God he is free, and I am thankful it is I who have to suffer instead of him. The time may come when he will remember me. And the time may come when he will still further remember
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