Toronto, March 18th, 1864.
MY DEAR STILL: — Yours of the 15th Reached on the 11th,
found myself and family very well, and not to delay no time in replying to you,
as there was an article in your letter which article Roused me very much when I
read it; that was you praying to me to be cautious how I write down South. Be
so kind as to tell me in your next letter whether you have at any time
apprehended any danger in my letters however, in those bond southward; if there
have been, allow me to beg ten thousand pardon before God and man, for I am not
design to throw any obstacle in the way of those whom I left in South, but to
aide them in every possible way. I have done as you Requested, that to warn the
friends of the dager of writing South. I have told all you said in yours that
Mr. Minkins would be in your city very soon, and you would see what you could
do for me, do you mean or do speak in reference to my dear uncle. I am hopes
that you will use every ifford to get him from the position in which he now
stand. I know how he feels at this time, for I have felt the same when I was a
runway. I was bereft of all participation with my family for nearly nine
months, and now that poor fellow are place in same position. Oh God help I
pray, what a pitty it is that I cannot do him no good, but I sincerely hope
that you will not get fatigued at doing good in such cases, nay, I think other
wises of you, however, I Say no more on this subject at present, but leave it
for you to judge.
On the 13th inst. you made Some Remarks concerning friend
Forman's wife, I am Satisfied that you will do all you can for her Release from
Slavery, but as you said you feels for them, so do I, and Mr. Foreman comes to
me very often to know if I have heard anything from you concerning his wife,
they all comes to for the same.
God Save the Queen. All my letters Southward have passed
through your hands with an exception of one.
John H. HILL.
SOURCES: William Still, The Underground
Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 196-7
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