* * * * *
Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior.
I have no doubt you can make the narrative a very interesting contribution to the history of an important period of our national development. It will be calculated to strengthen in the whole American people a just sense of the beneficent results of the great social revolution we have achieved, and to inspire the people of your own race with a high appreciation of the blessings of liberty they now enjoy.
* * * * *
From Hon. W.D. Kelley, Congressman from Pa.
The stories you tell with admirable simplicity and directness of the suffering heroically endured by such numbers of poor fugitives, will instruct and inspire many who have regarded the American slave as a member of an inferior race.
Office "THE PRESS," Philadelphia, Pa.My Dear Sir:—I have read most of the proof sheets of your forthcoming book, entitled "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD," and have just examined the letter-press preparatory to its publication, and the accompanying engravings, and I cannot refrain from stating, that I believe it to be a consummate work of its kind. Its chief merit, of course, consists in its extraordinary revelations of the injustice and cruelty of the dead system of slavery, but it is gratifying to notice that it will be printed and sent forth to the world in so complete and admirable a style, I commend it most cheerfully as a book that every citizen should have in his library. Very truly, yours,
JNO. W. FORNEY.
WM. STILL, Esq.
* * * * *
I join very cordially in the preceding statement and recommendation.