son of deeper significance than foaming waves or towering
mounts."

While in Toronto she lectured, and was listened to with great interest;
but she made only a brief visit, thence returning to Philadelphia, her
adopted home.

With her newly acquired reputation as a lecturer, from 1856 to 1859 she
continued her labors in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, &c. In
the meantime she often came in contact with Underground Rail Road
passengers, especially in Philadelphia. None sympathized with them more
sincerely or showed a greater willingness to render them material aid.
She contributed apparently with the same liberality as though they were
her own near kin. Even when at a distance, so deep was her interest in
the success of the Road, she frequently made it her business to forward
donations, and carefully inquire into the state of the treasury. The
Chairman of the Committee might publish a volume of interesting letters
from her pen relating to the Underground Rail Road and kindred topics;
but a few extracts must suffice. We here copy from a letter dated at
Rushsylvania, Ohio, Dec. 15th: "I send you to-day two dollars for the
Underground Rail Road. It is only a part of what I subscribed at your
meeting. May God speed the flight of the slave as he speeds through our
Republic to gain his liberty in a monarchical land. I am still in the
lecturing field, though not very strong physically.... Send me word what
I can do for the fugitive."

From Tiffin, Ohio, March 31st, touching the news of a rescue in
Philadelphia, she thus wrote:

"I see by the Cincinnati papers that you have had an attempted
rescue and a failure. That is sad! Can you not give me the
particulars? and if there is anything that I can do for them in
money or words, call upon me. This is a common cause; and if
there is any burden to be borne in the
Anti-Slavery-cause--anything to be done to weaken our hateful
chains or assert our manhood and womanhood, I have a right to do
my share of the work. The humblest and feeblest of us can do
something; and though I may be deficient in many of the
conventionalisms of city life, and be considered as a person of
good impulses, but unfinished, yet if there is common rough work
to be done, call on me."

Mrs. Harper was not content to make speeches and receive plaudits, but
was ever willing to do the rough work and to give material aid wherever
needed.

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