Produced by Curtis Weyant, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by the Wright American Fiction Project.) [Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error by the publisher is noted at the end of this ebook.] AUTOGRAPHS FOR FREEDOM. EDITED BY JULIA GRIFFITHS. "In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade." AUBURN: ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO. ROCHESTER: WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO. 1854. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, 216 William St. N. Y. [Illustration: J. B. Giddings (Engraved by J. C. Buttre.)] Preface. In commending this, the second volume of "_the Autographs for Freedom_," to the attention of the public, "THE ROCHESTER LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY" would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made, during the past year, by the cause to which the book is devoted. We greet thankfully those who have contributed of the wealth of their genius; the strength of their convictions; the ripeness of their judgment; their earnestness of purpose; their generous sympathies; to the completeness and excellence of the work; and we shall hope to meet many of them, if not all, in other numbers of "_The Autograph_," which may be called forth ere the chains of the Slave shall be broken, and this country redeemed from the sin and the curse of Slavery. On behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. [Illustration: (signature) Julia Griffiths] _Sec'y._ ROCHESTER, N. Y. Contents. Subject Author PAGE INTRODUCTION (The Colored People's "Industrial College") _Prof. C. L. Reason_ 11 Massacre at Blount's Fort _Hon. J. R. Giddings_ 14 The Fugitive Slave Act _Hon. Wm. Jay_ 27 The Size of Souls _Antoinette L. Brown_ 41 Vincent Oge _George B. Vashon_ 44 The Law of Liberty _Rev. Dr. Wm. Marsh_ 61 The Swiftness of Time in God _Theodore Parker_ 63 Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce _Wm. Wells Brown_ 70 Narrative of Albert and Mary _Dr. W. H. Brisbane_ 77 Toil and Trust _Hon. Chas. F. Adams_ 128 Friendship for the Slave is Friendship for the Master _Jacob Abbott_ 134