There are several other letters published in this work upon the same subject, from slaveholders, which it is hardly necessary for me to notice.

However, I feel thankful to the writers for the endorsement and confirmation which they have given to my story.

No matter what their motives were, they have done me and the anti-slavery cause good service in writing those letters--but more especially the Gatewood's.

Silas Gatewood has done more for me than all the rest.

He has labored so hard in his long communication in trying to expose me, that he has proved every thing that I could have asked of him; and for which I intend to reward him by forwarding him one of my books, hoping that it may be the means of converting him from a slaveholder to an honest man, and an advocate of liberty for all mankind.
The reader will see in the introduction that Wm.