LLIAM STILL:--The bearer of this, Winlock
Clark, has lately been most unrighteously sold for seven years,
and is desirous of enlisting, and becoming one of Uncle Sam's
boys; I have advised him to call on thee so that no land sharks
shall get any bounty for enlisting him; he has a wife and
several children, and whatever bounty the government or the
State allows him, will be of use to his family. Please write me
when he is snugly fixed in his regimentals, so that I may send
word to his wife. By so doing, thee will much oblige thy friend,
and the friend of humanity,

THOMAS GARRETT.

N.B. Am I naughty, being a professed non-resistant, to advise
this poor fellow to serve Father Abraham? T.G.

We have given so many of these inimitable Underground Rail Road letters
from the pen of the sturdy old laborer, not only because they will be
new to the readers of this work, but because they so fittingly
illustrate his practical devotion to the Slave, and his cheerfulness--in
the face of danger and difficulty--in a manner that other pens might
labor in vain to describe.

DANIEL GIBBONS.

A life as uneventful as the one whose story we are about to tell,
affords little scope for the genius of the biographer or the historian,
but being carefully studied, it cannot fail to teach a lesson of
devotion and self-sacrifice, which should be learned and remembered by
every succeeding age.

Daniel Gibbons, son of James and Deborah (Hoopes) Gibbons, was born on
the banks of Mill Creek, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 21st
day of the 12th month (December), 1775. He was descended on his father's
side from an English ancestor, whose name appears on the colonial
records, as far back as 1683. John Gibbons evidently came with or before
William Penn to this "goodly heritage of freedom." His earthly remains
lie at Concord Friends' burying-ground, Delaware county, near where the
family lived for a generation or two. The grandfather of Daniel Gibbons,
who lived near where West Town boarding-school now is, in Chester
county, bought for seventy pounds, "one thousand acres of land and
allowances," in what is now Lancaster county, intending, as he
ultimately did, to settle his three sons upon it. This purchase was made
about the year 1715. In process of time, the eldest son, desiring to
marry Deborah Hoopes, the daughter of Daniel Hoopes, of a neighboring
township in Chester county, the y