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| 584 THE UNDERGROUND SAIL ROAD. through. Truty, there is no need to preach about Slavery in the abstract, this individual case combines every wickedness by which human nature can be degraded. Truly, thy friend, MABY B. THOMAS." In a subsequent letter, our friend says: " As to detail, the whole transaction was like a flash to those who saw the miserable ending. I was impelled to write without delay, by the thought that it would be in time for the ' Freeman,' and that any procrastination on my part, might jeopard others of these suffering people, who are living, as was this poor gir], in fancied security. Our consternation was inexpressible; our sorrow and indignation deepen daily, as the thought returns of the awful announcement with which we were awakened: they have carried Martha to the South. To do what will be of most service to the cause—not their cause—ours— that of our race, is our burning desire." HELPERS AND SYMPATHIZERS AT HOME AND ABROAD-INTERESTING LETTERS. The ^ecessities of the Committee for the relief of tbc destitute and wayworn travelers bound freedom-ward, were met mainly by friends of the cause in Philadelphia. Generous-hearted abolitionists nobly, gave their gold in this work. They gave not only material, but likewise whole-souled aid and sympathy in times of need, to a degree well worthy of commemoration while the name of slave is remembered. The Shipleys, Hoppers, Parrishes, Motts, Whites, Copes, Wistars, Pcnnocks, Sellers, Davis, Prices, Hallowells, Sharpless, Williams, Coates, Morris, Browns, Towns-ends, Taylors, Jones, Grews, Wises, Lindseys, Barkers, Earles, Puglis, Rogers, Whartons, Barnes, Willsons, Wrights, Peirccs, Justices, Smiths, Cavenders, Stackbousos, Nealls, Dawsons, Evans, Lees, Childs, Clothiere, Harveys, Laings, Middlctons, etc., are among the names well-known in the days which tried men's souls, as being most true to the bondman, whether on the Underground Rail Road, before a Fugitive Slavc-I-aw Court, or on a rice or cotton plantation in the South. Nor would we pass over the indefatigable labors of the Ladies' Anti-slavery Societies and Sewing Circles of Philadelphia, whose surpassing fidelity to the slave in the face of prejudice, calumny and reproach, year in and year out, should be held in lasting remembrance. In the hours of darkness they cheered the cause. While we thus honor the home-guards and coadjutors in our immediate neighborhood, we cannot forget other earnest and faithful friends of the slave, in distant parts of the country and the world, who |