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The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. — John Shaqi

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The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

Name: The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
Author: Still, William

Still, William

Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Underground Railroad

WM. STILL: _Dear Sir_ ,--On last Tuesday I mailed a letter to
    you, written by Seth Concklin. I presume you have received that
    letter. It gave an account of his rescue of the family of your
    brother. If that is the last news you have had from them, I have
    very painful intelligence for you. They passed on from near
    Princeton, where I saw them and had a lengthy interview with
    them, up north, I think twenty-three miles above Vincennes,
    Ind., where they were seized by a party of men, and lodged in
    jail. Telegraphic dispatches were sent all through the South. I
    have since learned that the Marshall of Evansville received a
    dispatch from Tuscumbia, to look out for them. By some means, he
    and the master, so says report, went to Vincennes and claimed
    the fugitives, chained Mr. Concklin and hurried all off. Mr.
    Concklin wrote to Mr. David Stormon, Princeton, as soon as he
    was cast into prison, to find bail. So soon as we got the letter
    and could get off, two of us were about setting off to render
    all possible aid, when we were told they all had passed, a few
    hours before, through Princeton, Mr. Concklin in chains. What
    kind of process was had, if any, I know not. I immediately came
    down to this place, and learned that they had been put on a boat
    at 3 P.M. I did not arrive until 6. Now all hopes of their
    recovery are gone. No case ever so enlisted my sympathies. I had
    seen Mr. Concklin in Cincinnati. I had given him aid and
    counsel. I happened to see them after they landed in Indiana. I
    heard Peter and Levin tell their tale of suffering, shed tears
    of sorrow for them all; but now, since they have fallen a prey
    to the unmerciful blood-hounds of this state, and have again
    been dragged back to unrelenting bondage, I am entirely
    unmanned. And poor Concklin! I fear for him. When he is dragged
    back to Alabama, I fear they will go far beyond the utmost rigor
    of the law, and vent their savage cruelty upon him. It is with
    pain I have to communicate these things. But you may not hear
    them from him. I could not get to see him or them, as Vincennes
    is about thirty miles from Princeton, where I was when I heard
    of the capture.

    I take pleasure in stating that, according to the letter he
    (Concklin) wrote to Mr. D. Stewart, Mr. Concklin did not abandon
    them, but risked his own liberty to save them. He was not with
    them when they were taken; but went afterwards to take them out
    of jail upon a writ of Habeas Corpus, when they seized him too
    and lodged him in prison.

The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

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