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| 608 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. committing themselves to it so fearfully. If your President had but taken the step at first, he is taking now, what rivers of blood might have been stayed! It is remarkable, how you, aa a people, have been preserved to each other, without having your own hands stained with blood. But as to expatriation, the very thought of it is foolish. You have been brought to America, not emigrated to it, and who on earth has any possible right to send you away? Some of us are almost as much displeased with the North, for talking of this, as with the South for holding you in Slavery. "What can we say to you, but " watch and pray," " hope and wait," and surely, in His own good time, the Most High will make you a pathway out of trouble. We are delighted to hear of the good behaviour of your people, Wherever they have a fair chance of acting (on the borders), as upright men and Christians. Very sincerely, your friend, To WILLIAM STJLL. ANNA H. RICHARDSON. WOMAN ESCAPING IN A BOX, 1857. SHE WAS SPEECHLESS. In the winter of 1857 a young woman, who had just turned her majority, •was boxed up in Baltimore by one who stood to her in the relation of a companion, a young man, who had the box conveyed aa freight to the depot in Baltimore, consigned to Philadelphia. Nearly all one night it remained at the dejx>t with the living agony in it, and after being turned upside .down more than once, the next day about ten o'clock it reached Philadelphia. Her companion coming on in advance of the box, arranged with a hackman., George Cust«s, to attend to having it brought from the depot to a designated house, Mrs. Myers', 412 S. 7th street, where the resurrection was to take place. Castus, without knowing exactly what the box contained, but suspecting from the apparent anxiety and instructions of the young man who engaged him to go after it, that it was of great importance, while the freight car still remained on the street, demanded it of the freight agent, not willing to wait the usual time for the delivery of freight. At first the freight agent declined delivering under such circumstances. The hackman insisted by saying that he wished to despatch it in great haste, said it is all right, you know me, I have been coming here for many years every day, and will be responsible for it. The freight-master told him to "take it and go ahead with it." No'sooner said than done. It was placed in a one horse wagon at the instance of Custus, and driven to Seventh and Minster streets. |