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| 586 TBE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. and gives more zeal to the true philanthropist I hope you will come off victorious. I pray for yoa and your co-laborers and co-sufferers. My good brother, I am greatly indebted to you for your continued kindness. The Lord reward you. I have a scholarship in an Ohio College, Geneva Hall, which will entitle me—any one I may send—to six years tuition. It is an Anti-slavery institution, and wholly under Anti-slavery control and influence. They want colored students to prepare them for the great field of labor open to men of talent and piety of that class. Whea I last saw you I purposed talking to you about this matter, but was disappointed very much in not getting to take tea with you, as I partly promised. Have you a son ready for college? or for the grammar scbool ? Do you know any promising young man who would accept my scholarship? Or would your brother's son, Peter or Levin, like to have the benefit of it? If so, you are at liberty to promise it to any one whom you think I would be willing to educate. Write me at your earliest convenience, about this matter. ******** I presume the Standard will contain full accounts of the Norristown meeting, the Williamsou case, and your own aud those connected. If it does not, I will thank you to write me fully. ******** What causes the delay of that book, the History of Peter Still's Family, etc.? I long to sec it. The Lord bless you in your labors for the slave. Yours, etc., N. R. JOHXSTON. TOPSHAM, VT., December 26tL, 1855. WM. STILL, MY DEAR FRIEND :—I wrote to you some two or three weeks ago, enclosing the letter to the care of a friend in Philadelphia, whom I wished to introduce to you. I have had no answer to that letter, and I am afraid you have not received it, or that you have written me, and I have not received yours. In tbat letter I wished to receive information respecting the best way to expend money for the aid of fugitives. Lest you may not have received it, I write you again, though briefly. A few of the Anti-slavery friends, mostly ladies, in our village have formed an Anti-slavery Society and sewing circle, the proceeds of which are to go to aid needy or destitute fugitive slaves. They have appointed rne corresponding secretary. la obedience to my instructions, and that I may fulfill my promises, I want to find out from you the desired information. We *ant to give the little money raised, in such a way that fugitives who are really needy will be benefited by it. Write me as goon as possible, where and to whom we should send the funds when raised. I have thought that you $( the Vigilance Committee, in Philadelphia had need of it. Or, if not, |