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| 592 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD, Dublin, and the Misses Wighams, of Scotland, representatives of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, were constantly in correspondence with leading abolitionists in different parts of the country, manifesting a deep interest iu the general cause, and were likewise special stockholders of the Underground Rail Road of Philadelphia. In common with stockholders at home, these trans-atlantic investors were willing to receive their shares of dividends in the answer of a good conscience, or, in other words, from the satisfaction and pleasure derivable from a consciousness of having done what they could to alleviate the sufferings of the oppressed struggling to be free. Having thus shown their faith by their works it would be unjust not to make honorable mention of them. Last, though not least, at the risk of wounding tbe feelings of one who preferred not to let the left band know what the right hand docth, we may contemplate the philanthropic labors of one, whose generosity and benevolence knew no bounds; whose friendship devotion and liberality, were felt in all the principal stations of the Underground Rail Road; whose heart went out after the millions in fetters, the fleeing fugitive, the free, proscribed, the ignorant deprived of education; wbose house was the home of the advocate of the slave from the United States, especially if he wore a colored skin or Lad been a slave. We would not venture to say how many of the enslaved this kind hand helped to purchase (Frederick Douglass and many-others, being of the number.) How many were assisted in procuring an education, how many who pined in slave prisons were aided, how many fleeing over the perilous Underground Rail Road were benefited, the All-seeing Eye alone knoweth; nevertheless, we are happy to be able to give our readers some idea of the unwearied lalx>rs of the friend to •whom we allude. Here again we are compelled to resort to private correspondence which took place when Cotton was King, and the Slave-power of the South could boastingly say, iu the language of the apocalyptic woman, "I sit as a queen, and shall see no sorrow," when that power was maddened to desperation, by the heroism of the martyr, John Brown, and the lettered bondmen were ever and anon traveling over the Underground Rail Road. In this " darkest hour, just before the breuk of day," the heart of the friend of whom we speak, was greatly moved to consider the wants of the oppressed in various directions. How worthily and successfully her labors gave evidence of an earnest devotion to freedom, the mode and measures adopted by her, to awaken sympathy in the breast of the benevolent of her own countrymen, and how noble her example, may be learned from a small pamphlet and explanatory letters which, when -written, were intended especially for private use, but whioh we now feel constrained to copy from a sense of justice to disinterested philimthropy. |