We, the undersigned, inmates of Woodstock Jail, desire to convey to you
our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for the many acts of kindness and
sympathy shown us by you during your incarceration in this institution.
We selfishly regret your departure from here into the outer world and
scenes of labor. Your presence here has been to us what an oasis in a
desert is to the tired and weary traveler, or a ray of sunshine showing
thro’ a rift in the clouds.
With thousands of others we rejoice and extend to you our most earnest
congratulations upon your restoration to liberty.
Hoping you may have a long, prosperous and happy life, success in all of
your undertakings, especially “The American Railway Union,” we all join
in wishing you Godspeed and beg to subscribe ourselves,
Your friends,
CHARLES E. ANDERSON,
EDWARD MADDEN,
PAUL WAMBACH,
W. E. HORTON.
To Eugene V. Debs, Esq.,
Woodstock, Ill., Nov. 22, 1895.