t, 28, $3,50; two pairs cotton socks, 3, 75 cents; three
pairs cotton stockings, 4, $1,50; one pair woolen stockings, 6,
75 cents; one pair woolen stockings, 4, 50 cents; three pair
woolen socks, 2, 75 cents; five pair woolen socks, 3, $1,88;
eight chemise, 32, $4,50; thirteen men's shirts, 66 cents,
$8,58; one pair pants, 12, $1,50; six pair overall pants, 80
cents, $4,80; three pair pillow cases, $1,00; three calico
aprons, 2, 75 cents; three sun-bonnets, 2, 75 cents; two small
aprons, 1, 25 cents; one alpaca cape, 8, $1,00; two capes, 1, 25
cents; one black shawl, 4, 50 cents. Total, $56,51.
The foregoing is a correct list of the articles and the
appraisal of the same. Please acknowledge the receipt of the
letter and box, and oblige the Anti-slavery Society of
Ellington.
Mrs. DR. BROOKS.
The road was doing a flourishing business during the short time that
this station received aid and sympathy from the Ladies' Anti-slavery
Society of Ellington, and little did we dream that its existence would
so soon be rendered null and void by the utter overthrow of Slavery.
We have great pleasure in stating that beyond our borders also, across
the ocean, there came help to a laudable degree in the hour of need. The
numbers of those who aided in this special work, however, were very few
and far between, a hundred per cent. less (so far as the receipts of the
Philadelphia Committee were concerned), than was supposed by
slave-holders and their sympathizers, judging from their oft repeated
allegations on this subject.
It is true, that the American Anti-slavery Society and kindred
associations, received liberal contributions from a few warm-hearted and
staunch abolitionists abroad, to aid the great work of abolishing
Slavery. In reference to the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, we are
safe in saying, that, except from a few sources, no direct aid came. How
true this was of other stations, we do not pretend to know or speak, but
in the directions above alluded to, we feel that the cause was placed
under lasting obligations. The Webbs of 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 in the
general cause, and were likewise special stockholders of the Underground
Rail Road of Philadelphia
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