The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[937] Life of George Ticknor, Vol. I, p. 286.

[938] History of the United States, Vol. I, pp. 284, 285.

[939] Peirce, Life of Sumner, Vol. III, p. 283.

[940] Ibid., p. 289.

[941] Ibid., p. 292.

[942] Peirce, Life of Sumner, Vol. III, pp. 296, 297; Congressional Globe, Vol. XXV, p. 1112.

[943] Congressional Globe, Vol. XXV, p. 1112; Peirce, Life of Sumner, Vol. III, p. 297.

In a public speech made in 1850 Mr. Garrison had this to say, "Who are among our ablest speakers? Who are the best qualified to address the public mind on the subject of slavery? Your fugitive slaves,—your Douglasses, Browns and Bibbs,—who are astonishing all with the cogency of their words and the power of their reasoning." Life of Garrison, Vol. III, p. 311.

[944] Peirce, Life of Sumner, Vol. III, p. 309, foot-note; Vol. IV, pp. 71, 175-177.

[945] S. J. May, Some Recollections of our Anti-Slavery Conflict, pp. 380, 381. Mr. May says another convention was held ten days later to condemn the action of the rescuers, and did so, but not without dissent.