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± BLACK IWOff OF ARC.rA black woman of medium size,; par riially deaf illiterate, without dhe slightest knowledge of letters or geography, and a conspicuous figure at .111 tlie anti-slavery meetings in Boston eight or ten years before tltc rebellion was Harriet Tubman who bettered herself ehos-en ol .God to lead her people out of bondage., .Fulfilling tla1 mission laid down to her. she a an the gauntlet of the. difficult parts of the Southern country, penetrating-the interior slave states, hiding in the woods during the -day, feeding on the bonds mei’s homely faie at night she would would bring off whole families of slaves, pilot them to Canada and never were they captured. This was the darkest and most dangerous period of the fugitive, .and in that .hour her .romantic devotion to the cause of the emancipation of slaves, won her the trusted friendship of John Brawn, Gov. A ndrew, Secretary Seward, Wendell Phillips, Oliver Johnson and other leading abolitionists- But her devotion did not end there. Hers was not a mission of her people alone. She was yet to perform an important duty for her country-Whefi the war broke out Harriet was these hanging about the outskirts ofthe Union army, pickihg up the contrabands and piloting them safely into the union lines, and when the government saw tit to put a black regiment intoP.it e Union army, Harriet was there too, traveling from camp to camp, attending the wounded, the dying and the dead. When the Union army landed at Port Royal and captured . the Sea Island, in 18(11, Harriet procured letters and passes fron^ Gov. Andrew and others and went down to South Carolina, joined the colored troops under Cols. Higgins and Montgomery, and served as a spy- a scout and a hospital nurse, by turns until 18G4. She seemed.to have ja.charmed life, and us a spy was most successful, on one occasion returning trom the enemy's camp to Burnside with valuable information. To sav that she was beVloved by the Union officers .and soldiers is needless, she was to them an angel in | \l sable disguise.—The “Mirror.”H. C. Williams has been elected coro-j ner of Gibson county, Ind.Services at St. James church on Sundays: Celebration ofthe Holy Communion 7 a.m. . Morning Prayer and sermon 11 am. Evening Prayer and sermon 8 p.m. All seats free and everybody most cordially welcomed.
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Baltimore Church Advocate
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1892
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