BRANTFORD, C.W., JANUARY 11th, 61.
MR. WM. STILL, DEAR SIR:--I take this opportunity to drop you a
few lines to let you hear from me. I am well at this time,
hoping this will find you the same.
I acknowledge my great neglectness of you with great regret that
I have not answered your letter before this, I hope you will
excuse me as I have succeeded in getting me a wife since I wrote
to you last.
My mind has been much taken up in so doing for several months
past. Give my compliments to your wife and your family, and Mr.
Gibbs, also hoping they are all well. Tell Mrs. Still to pray
for me that I may grow in grace and the knowledge of the truth
as it is in Jesus.
I often think of you all. I pray that the time may come when we
will all be men in the United States. We have read here of the
great disturbance in the South. My prayer is that this may be a
deathblow to Slavery. Do you ever have any Underground Rail Road
passengers now? Times have been very prosperous in Canada this
year.
The commercial trade and traffic on the railways has been very
dull for these few months back. Business on the Buffalo and Lake
Huron railway has been so dull that a great number of the hands
have been discharged on account of the panic in the South.
Canada yet cries, Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
I must now say a little about my friend and brother Stepney
Brown, he lived about six months at the Niagara Falls and is now
going to school here in Brantford, he sends his best respects to
you all. He and I often sit together at night after the labor of
the day is over talking about our absent friends wishing we
could see them once more.
Mr. Brown and myself have been wishing for one or two of your
slavery standards and would be much obliged to you if you would
send some of the latest.
Please let me hear from you as soon as possible. I must now
bring my letter to a close and remain your affectionate friend,