Railroad Company, he made his book as a
business man makes his ledger, viz.: by noting daily the transactions of
the day. How he preserved them does not matter much now, but if a
certain loft in the chapel of an old cemetery could speak, it might a
tale unfold.

The volume is quite large and commanding in appearance. It consists of
about 800 pages, clearly printed on beautiful white paper, making the
largest book ever written by a colored person in this country.

An attractive feature of the book, one which has added largely to its
cost, and one which greatly enhances its value to the reader, is its
illustrations. These are over seventy in number, and they are made to
illustrate the most striking portions of the work. They represent night
escapes and day encounters, on land and river, receptions on the soil of
freedom, characters of note among the fugitives, and many of those among
the anti-slavery people whose names have become historic. It is seldom a
volume is seen which so abounds in apt and striking illustration.

The field for the sale of this volume is immense. It will prove
desirable as a curious contribution to the literature of the times, and
will be bought in every home North and South, East and West, where
reading is cherished. It is pre-eminently the book for the colored race.
There is not a colored man or woman in the whole land who will not want
to possess it. Even if he cannot read, he will want it for his children.
It will be their history and their story for generations.

We have fixed the price at a very low figure, so as to completely answer
all pleas of poverty or hard times.

The whole book of _800 SUPER-ROYAL OCTAVO PAGES_ is filled with the
thrilling History of the Secret work of the U.G.R.R., giving an
authentic account of the wonderful Escapes and Daring Deeds, the
Endurance and Sacrifice of men and women in their efforts for freedom.
It is BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED and substantially bound, and furnished at
the following _VERY LOW PRICES:_

IN FINE ENGLISH CLOTH, PANNELLED,............... $3.00 IN BEAUTIFUL
EMBOSSED MOROCCO, GILT CENTRE, ... 4.00

Every book corresponds with above description or the subscriber is not
bound to take it.

PEOPLE'S PUBLISHING CO.,

26 SO. 7TH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA., CINCINNATI, O.,

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_FROM THE "NATION," N.Y._

It is, nevertheless, a chapter in our history which connot be skipped or
obliterated, inasmuc