een the home of such a man. I remember well
the just pride with which he told me, that after that sale,
pro-slavery as Wilmington was, he could have a discount at the
bank as readily as any man in the city. Though the laws robbed
him, his fellow-citizens could not but respect and trust him,
love and honor him.

"The city has never had, we believe, a man die in it worthy of a
statue. We advise it to seize this opportunity to honor itself
and perpetuate the good name of its worthiest citizen, by
immortalizing some street, spot, shaft or building with his
name.

"Brave, generous, high-souled, sturdy, outspoken friend of all
that needed aid or sympathy, farewell for these scenes! In times
to come, when friendless men and hated ideas need champions, God
grant them as gallant and successful ones as you have been, and
may the State you honored grow worthy of you. WENDELL PHILLIPS."

Likewise in the "National Standard," the editor, Aaron M. Powell, who
attended the funeral, paid the following glowing tribute to the moral,
religious, and anti-slavery character of the slave's friend:

On the 24th inst., Thomas Garrett, in his eighty-second year,
passed on to the higher life. A week previous we had visited him
in his sick chamber, and, on leaving him felt that he must go
hence ere long. He was the same strong, resolute man in spirit
to the last. He looked forward to the welcome change with
perfect serenity and peace of mind. And well he might, for he
had indeed fought the good fight and been faithful unto the end.

He was most widely known for his services to fugitive slaves.
Twenty-five hundred and forty-five he had preserved a record of;
and he had assisted somewhat more than two hundred prior to the
commencement of the record. Picture to the mind's eye this
remarkable procession of nearly three thousand men, women and
children fleeing from Slavery, and finding in this brave,
large-hearted man, a friend equal to their needs in so critical
an emergency! No wonder he was feared by the slave-holders, not
alone of his own State, but of the whole South. If their human
chattels once reached his outpost, there was indeed little hope
of their reclamation. The friend and helper of fugitives from
Slavery, truly their Moses, he was more than this, he was the
discriminating, outspoken, uncompr