Journal Office, Correspondent,

Potter Co. Pa.,

Jan 19.

F. DOUGLASS: DEAR SIR :—I enclose $2; please send me one copy of "Autographs for Freedom," gilt. There will be a balance of one dollar, which you may hand to the Treasurer of the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Sewing Society. I am much interested in this Society and would be glad to increase my contribution, but have not the means.

Your paper has become one of the most important advocates of the cause of humanity, and I am heartily glad at every indication of its success. It is because the Ladies Sewing Society has rendered such efficient aid in the support of your paper, that I am so much interested in it.

Yours truly,

JONN S. MANNMann, John Smith

John Smith Mann (1816-79), one of the editors of the People’s Journal of Coudersport, Pennsylvania. John Mann was a lawyer and store owner and later became very active in politics. He was first elected to be the director of school in the 1840s. Mann then served with the postal service and was elected as a burgess in Coudersport as a Republican. After the war, he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives several times in the late 1860s and early 1870s. In addition to the People’s Journal, Mann helped edit the Potter Journal through the 1870s. His home was said to be part of the Underground Railroad. 1860 U.S. Census, Coudersport Boro, Potter, Pennsylvania; “The Potter Journal and News Item,” Chronicling America, loc.gov; “Mann, John Smith,” Archives Pennsylvania House of Representatives, archives.house.state.pa.us. .