He had labored here among the colored people, mostly
fugitives, for six years. He was a devoted, self-denying worker, had
received very little pecuniary help, and had suffered many privations.
He was well situated in Ohio as pastor of a Presbyterian Church, and
had fine prospects before him, but believed that the Lord called him
to this field of missionary labor among the fugitive slaves, who
came here by hundreds and by thousands, poor, destitute, ignorant,
suffering from all the evil influences of slavery. We entered into
deep sympathy with him and his labors, realizing the great need there
was here for just such an institution as he had established. He had
sheltered at his missionary home many hundred of fugitives till other
homes for them could be found. This was the great landing point, the
principal terminus of the Underground Railroad of the West." See
Coffin's _Reminiscences_, p. 251.]
[Footnote 7: _Ibid_., pp. 249-251.]
[Footnote 8: Siebert, _The Underground Railroad_, p. 202.]
[Footnote 9: Haviland, _A Woman's Work_, pp. 192, 196, 201.]
[Footnote 10: Haviland, _A Woman's Work_, pp. 192, 193.]
With these immigrants, however, this was not a mere passive
participation in the work of their amelioration.
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