A[mos] G[erry] B[eman] to Frederick Douglass, September 10, 1855
NEW HAVEN, Sept. 10th, 1855.
MR. EDITOR:—The subject of slavery—and
the question: What has the North to do with
it? has been pressed home upon many in this
community, within a few days, with great earnestness.
1st. Capt. DANIEL DRAYTON, of the Schooner
Pearl enterprise of 1848, has been here with
his narrative [illegible]. On the evening of the
2d inst., he [illegible] in the Temple St. Church
to a very [illegible], for an hour and a half,
in which he gave a history of that affair, and
of his experience when in the hands of slave
holders, and in the prison at the nation's capi
tal. He seems an honest and faithful man, and
may this little notice open some other door for
him, and let the friends of the slave help him
and encourage him wherever he may go, on his
mission of love.
2d. While we were engaged with him, we
were called upon, by a friend, to go and see the
conductor of one of the Underground Rail
roads, who had just arrived with some passen
gers from Alabama, the particulars of which
may not be stated, at the present time, for the
route must be traveled over again, e're long, to
bring those who are left behind. We only wish
to assure the friends, that those who have ar
rived are well, and have the prospect of doing
well.
They speak, in praise, of the road, and of the
faithfulness of the conductor. A large number
of friends greeted them yesterday in the Temple
St. Church, and tendered to them sympathy
and "material aid," and assured them, that if
they had left the sunny South to have the inclem
ency of a Northern climate, for freedom's sake,
that they would find that genial , which cannot be found in the land of fet
ters and chains.
A. G. B.