NORWICH, CONNECTICUT. [No Date.]
Although I am personally unknown to you, yet I have a strong regard for such a noble old man as you have proved yourself to be. May the God of peace and truth be with you and your companions in this world and the one to come. Although man has said you must die at such a time, trust in God, for he may yet deliver thee; for with Him nothing is impossible. But if you die, may the God in which you so sincerely trust, help you to remain true and firm until the last. You have many friends who deeply sympathize with you and your noble wife. May she still have the consolation to know that if you die, it is not for wrong, but for right, which we should all follow, even if we suffer for it. . . .
M. E. H.
SOURCE: James Redpath,
Editor, Echoes of Harper’s Ferry, p. 414
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