The weekly Louisianian., 1872-06-29
Inp7ER FROM vWlplDkellI Ises.

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We have read th( antagral1h let
Her, Of which the fol- wing saScoRll
addressed by the venerable anti
slavery leader, William Lloyd Gar
rison, of Boston, to Mr.. William
Still, author of that interesting
work, "The Underground Railroad
just published and for sale by. Por:
ter & Coates in this city. It is
meeting with astonishing success
already . second edition Of 5000
copies has been ordered. We print
AIr. Garrison's letter, not. alone be
cause, it is: a just. tribute to Mr.
Stills book, but because it is . ggra-
phic review Of one of the most in
teresting passages in the worlds
history @.Es sa
80 RoxBurY,. April z, 1872.
DEAR MI. Still: I have already
delayed too long in thanking you
for your presentation to me Of your
volumnious and well-executed work
'The Underground Railroad" !
have examined It with a deep and
thrilling interest. It is a most i'm
portant portion Of anti-s1avel.y his
tory, which, but for your industry,
research, and personal experience
ind knowledge might nearly all
have been lost to posterity: Its re-
liableness, moreover, cannot be
called in question. Il is, therefore,
not "fction founded upon fact" and
eambel1ishel by q lively imagination,
but fact without a particle Of fiction
narrated in o simple, ingenious,
straightforward manner, and need
ing no: coloring whatever. What a
revelation it makes of the barbara
ties of the slave system-of the
formidable obstacles which inter-
posed to prevent a successful exc
tlus from the house Of bondage-of
the terrible exposures and suffer-
ings to which the fugitive slaves
we're subjected in their attempts to
be free-of the daring and heroism
required to run tire risk of betray-
III, recapture,. starvation in the
swamp and drowning in the river,
suafocation in trunk O. box, seizure
by two-legged and f%our-legged
blood hounds in hot pursuit, and q
thousand other perils. How it il
Illustrates too, the abject subservien-
cy of the nation. to the slave power,
so that even in Boston, the ~atrocious
fugitive slave law was as effectual-
Il enforced as it could have been in
New Orleans; and in all our broad
domains :nonlcc could give shelter On
assistance to the hunted and fam
ished victim, except at the peril of
fine and Imprisonment. And yet,
numerous as are the instances you
have recorded, they are only SAM
pies Of thousands OF. others, which
can never DO chronicled, running
through six generations: May we
trust our senses there is m end of
alt this wiekedness-that final and
marvellous dcliveranco has been
wrought for: all in bondage? Yes,
it is true; and there has been the
same Divine interpretation as OF old.
And the Lord said, Il hove surely
seen tho affection Of my people
which arc in Egypt, and have heard
their cry by reason Of their task
makers; for I know their SORROWS
and I am come down to deliver
them out Of the hand of the Esgyp-
X x i - "Thy right hand,
o Lord, is become glorious i'll pow
er;; Thy right hand, O Lord, hath
in pieces the enemy!"
hope that the sale of your work
will be widely z extended, Dot only
that the large expense Incurred in
preparation and pllaslngg may
be literally coversd,b4tlor the en-
lightenment Of tue radnig genera
aa to the Inherent cruelty OF
The defunct slave system, and to
perpetuatc such an adherence OF it
Is to prevent ALL further injustice
towards the colored population OF
oyrr land. Il 10 . book feFs every
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Wv. LLOYD GARR1soN..
WV. Still.
THr END or THE Womb IN 1872.
1t is predicted by French astrono-
mers, as . scientific fact, that the
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