[17] The title Mr. Parker gave to this scrap-book is as follows: "Memoranda of the Troubles in Boston occasioned by the infamous Fugitive Slave Law."
[18] Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 482.
[19] Ibid., pp. 488, 489.
[20] See Chap. XI, p. 346.
[21] Conversation with Robert Purvis, Philadelphia, Pa., December 24, 1895.
[22] Smedley, Underground Railroad, pp. 56, 57.
[23] Smedley, Underground Railroad, pp. 120, 121.
[24] The value of reminiscences and memoirs is considered in an article on "Recollections as a Source of History," by the Hon. Edward L. Pierce, in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, March and April, 1896, pp. 473-490. This, with the remarks of Professor H. Morse Stephens in his article entitled "Recent Memoirs of the French Directory," American Historical Review, April, 1896, pp. 475, 476, 489, should be read as a corrective by the student that finds himself constrained to have recourse to recollections for information.
[25] The Rev. J. R. W. Sloane, D.D., was the father of Professor William M. Sloane, of Columbia University, New York City. Professor Sloane, in a letter recently received, says: "The first clear, conscious memory I have is of seeing slaves taken from our garret near midnight, and forwarded towards Sandusky. I also remember the formal, but rather friendly, visitation of the house by the sheriff's posse." Date of letter, Paris, November 19, 1896.
[26] Conversation with the Rev. R. G. Ramsey, Cadiz, Ohio, August 18, 1892.