. The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for 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 . UAXIEL GIBBONS,STATION MABTEU. See p. 642. LUCRETIA MOTT. Seep. 649 FAITHFUL AVORKKRS IN THP] CAUSE. THOMAS GARRETT. 623 THOMAS GARRETT. The recent death of Thomas Garrett, called forth from the press, as wellas from abolitionist
. The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for 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 . UAXIEL GIBBONS,STATION MABTEU. See p. 642. LUCRETIA MOTT. Seep. 649 FAITHFUL AVORKKRS IN THP] CAUSE. THOMAS GARRETT. 623 THOMAS GARRETT. The recent death of Thomas Garrett, called forth from the press, as wellas from abolitionists and personal friends, such universal expressions ofrespect for his labors as a philanthropist, and especially as an unswervingfriend of the Underground Rail Road, that we need only reproduce selec-tions therefrom, in order to commemorate his noble deeds in these pages. From the Wilmington Daily Commercial, published by Jenkins andAtkinson (men fully inspired with the spirit of impartial freedom), we copythe following notice, which is regarded by his relatives and intimate anti-slavery friends as a faithful portraiture of his character and labors : Thomas Garrett, who died full of years and honor, this morning, at theripe age of eighty-one, was a man of no common character. He was anabolitionist from his youth up, and though the grand old cause numberedamongs
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