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,

    J.W.  DUNGY.

    P.S.  May the Lord be with you.  J.W.  DUNGY.

    Address your letter to John W. Dungy, Brantford, C.W.

“AUNT HANNAH MOORE.”

In 1854 in company with her so-called Mistress (Mary Moore) Aunt Hannah arrived in Philadelphia, from Missouri, being en route to California, where she with her mistress was to join her master, who had gone there years before to seek his fortune.  The mistress having relatives in this city tarried here a short time, not doubting that she had sufficient control over Aunt Hannah to keep her from contact with either abolitionists or those of her own color, and that she would have no difficulty in taking her with her to her journey’s end.  If such were her calculations she was greatly mistaken.  For although Aunt Hannah was destitute of book-learning she was nevertheless a woman of thought and natural ability, and while she wisely kept her counsel from her mistress she took care to make her wants known to an abolitionist.  She had passed many years under the yoke, under different