CASE OF EUPHEMIA WILLIAMS.

HELPERS AND SYMPATHIZERS AT HOME AND ABROAD--INTERESTING
LETTERS.

PAMPHLET AND LETTERS.

LETTERS TO THE WRITER.

WOMAN ESCAPING IN A BOX, 1857.

ORGANIZATION OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.

PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES.

ESTHER MOORE.

ABIGAIL GOODWIN.

THOMAS GARRETT.

DANIEL GIBBONS.

LUCRETIA MOTT.

JAMES MILLER McKIM.

WILLIAM H. FURNESS, D.D.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

LEWIS TAPPAN.

ELIJAH F. PENNYPACKER.

WILLIAM WRIGHT.

DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL.

THOMAS SHIPLEY.

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

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SETH CONCKLIN.

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