bondman, it was mercy unto Him!"

I trust some one, well qualified to execute the pleasing task,
will write his biography for the grand lessons his life
inculcated. Yours, in full sympathy and trust,

WM. LLOYD GARRISON.

A contemporary who had known him long and intimately--who had
appreciated his devotion to freedom, who had shared with him some of the
perils consequent upon aiding the fleeing fugitives, and who belonged to
the race with whom Garrett sympathized, and for whose elevation and
freedom he labored so assiduously with an overflowing heart of tender
regard and sympathy--penned the following words, touching the sad event:

CHATHAM, C.W., January 30, 1871.

To MR. HENRY GARRETT:--Dear Sir:--I have just heard, through the
kindness of my friend, Mrs. Graves, of the death of your dear
father; the intelligence makes me feel sad and sorrowful; I
sincerely sympathize with you and all your brothers and sisters,
in your mournful bereavement; but you do not mourn without hope,
for you have an assurance in his death that your loss is his
infinite gain. For he was a good Christian, a good husband, a
good father, a good citizen, and a truly good Samaritan, for his
heart, his hand and his purse, were ever open to the wants of
suffering humanity, wherever he found it; irrespective of the
country, religion, or complexion of the sufferer. Hence there
are many more who mourn his loss, as well as yourselves; and I
know, verily, that many a silent tear was shed by his
fellow-citizens, both white and colored, when he took his
departure; especially the colored ones; for he loved them with a
brother's love, not because they were colored, but because they
were oppressed, and, like John Brown, he loved them to the last;
that was manifest by his request that they should be his
bearers. I can better feel than I have language to express the
mournful and sorrowing pride that must have stirred the inmost
souls of those men of color, who had the honor conferred on them
of bearing his mortal remains to their last resting-place, when
they thought of what a sacred trust was committed to their
hands. We are told to mark the perfect man, and behold the
upright, for the end of that man is peace; and such was the end
of your dear father, and he has gone to join the innumerable
company of the spirits of the j