[450] Ibid.

[451] Life and Poems of John Howard Bryant, p. 30. Mr. Bryant made a practice of receiving fugitives in his house in Princeton, Ill.

[452] Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Anti-Slavery Reminiscences, p. 27.

[453] Ibid., pp. 28, 30.

[454] R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad, p. 355.

[455] Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston, pp. 34, 36, 37.

[456] William Still, Underground Railroad Records, pp. 77, 142, 151, 163, 165, 211, etc.

[457] Letter of James S. Rogers, Chicago, Ill., April 17, 1897.

[458] Letter of Brown Thurston, Portland, Me., Oct. 21, 1895.

[459] Letter of Aldis O. Brainerd, St. Albans, Vt., Oct. 21, 1895.