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Title: The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Still, William, 1821-1902
Subjects: Underground Railroad Fugitive slaves -- United States Antislavery movements -- United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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up, and was soon followed by Elijah Lewis,another Friend, a merchant, in Cooperville, both gentlemen higlily esteemedas worthy and peaceable citizens. As they came up, Kline, the deputymai-shal, ordered them to aid him, as a United States oflicer, to capture thefugitive slaves. They refused of course, as would any man not utterly desti-tute of honor, humanity, and moral principle, and warned the :ii>sailants thatit was madness for them to attempt to capture fugitive slaves there, or evento remain, and begged them if they wished to save their own lives, to leavethe ground. Kline replied, Do you really think so? Yes, was theanswer, the sooner you leave, the better, if you would prevent bloodshed.Kline then left the ground, retiring into a very safe distance into a corn-field, and toward the woods. The blacks were so exasperated by his threats,that, but for the interposition of the two white Friends, it is very doubtfulwhether he would have escaped without injury. Messrs. ILuiaway and
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THE SLA VE-IIUNTING TRAGED Y. ZA Lewis both exerted tlicir influence to dissuade the colored people fromviolence, and would probably have succeeded in restraining them, had notthe assailing party fired upon them. Young Gorsuch a.sivod liis father toleave, but the old man refused, declaring, as it is said and Ijclieved, that hewould go to hell, or have his slaves. Finding they could do nothing further, Hanaway and Lewis \)(>i\\ startedto leave, again counselling the slave-hunters to go away, and the coloredpeople to peace, but had gone but a few rods, when one of the inmates ofthe house attempted to come out at the door. Gorsuch presented his re-volver, ordering him back. The colored man replied, You had better goaway, if you dont want to get hurt, and at the same time, pushed him asideand passed out. Maddened at this, and stimulated by the question of liisnephew, whether he would take such an insult from a d—d nigger, Gor-such fired at the colored man, and was followed by his son

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