Chicago, November
17.
Dear Friend: We
certainly have great reasons, as well as intense desires, to assure you that we
deeply sympathize with you and your beloved family. Not only do we sympathize
in tears and prayers with you and them, but we will do so in a more tangible
form, by contributing material aid to help those of your family of whom you
have spoken to our mutual friend, Mrs. L. Maria Child. How could we be so
ungrateful as to do less for one who has suffered, bled, and now ready to die
for the cause? "Greater love can no man have, than to lay down his life
for the poor, despised, and lowly."
Your friends,
H. O. W., and
others.
SOURCE: James Redpath,
Editor, Echoes of Harper’s Ferry, p.
391
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