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AUTOGRAPHS

FOR FREEDOM.

EDITED BY

JULIA GRIFFITHS.

"In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade."

AUBURN: ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO.

ROCHESTER: WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO.

1854.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, 216 William St. N. Y.

Preface.

In commending this, the second volume of "the Autographs for Freedom," to the attention of the public, "THE ROCHESTER LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY" would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made, during the past year, by the cause to which the book is devoted.

We greet thankfully those who have contributed of the wealth of their genius; the strength of their convictions; the ripeness of their judgment; their earnestness of purpose; their generous sympathies; to the completeness and excellence of the work; and we shall hope to meet many of them, if not all, in other numbers of "The Autograph," which may be called forth ere the chains of the Slave shall be broken, and this country redeemed from the sin and the curse of Slavery.

On behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.

Sec'y.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Contents.

Subject Author PAGE

INTRODUCTION (The Colored People's "Industrial College") Prof. C. L. Reason 11

Massacre at Blount's Fort Hon. J. R. Giddings 14

The Fugitive Slave Act Hon. Wm. Jay 27

The Size of Souls Antoinette L. Brown 41

Vincent Oge George B. Vashon 44

The Law of Liberty Rev. Dr. Wm. Marsh 61

The Swiftness of Time in God Theodore Parker 63

Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce Wm. Wells Brown 70

Narrative of Albert and Mary Dr. W. H. Brisbane 77