The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[827] G. H. Woodruff, History of Will County, Illinois, p. 264.

[828] The Ottawa Republican, Nov. 9, 1891. The hearing occurred Oct. 20, 1859.

[829] The Pontiac (Ill.) Sentinel, 1891-1892.

[830] The Tabor (Ia.) Beacon, 1890-1891, Chap. XXI of a series of articles by the Rev. John Todd, on "The Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa."

[831] Underground Railroad Records, p. 367.

[832] Smedley, Underground Railroad, p. 359.

[833] This case is given by Mr. Noah Brooks, in his Washington in Lincoln's Time, 1895, pp. 197, 198.

[834] Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, Vol. III, p. 395.

[835] Congressional Globe, Thirty-seventh Congress, First Session, 1356.

[836] Liberator, May 1, 1863. Extract from the Frankfort Commonwealth, quoted by M. G. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, p. 80.