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"When John Brown was captured," Conwell went on, "my father tried to sell this place to get a little money to send to help his defense. WHEN JOHN BROWN WAS CAPTURED CONWELL WENT ON MY FATHER TRIED TO SELL THIS PLACE TO GET A LITTLE MONEY TO SEND TO HELP HIS DEFENSE
te ready to go and turn entirely by itself. The Conwell house was a station on the Underground Railway, and Russell Conwell remembers, when a lad, seeing the escaping slaves that his father had driven across country and temporarily hidden. “Those were heroic days,” he says, quietly. “And once in a while my father let me go with him. They were wonderful night drives--the cowering slaves, the darkness of the road, the caution and the silence and dread of it all.” This underground route, he remembers, was from Philadelphia to New Haven, thence to Springfield, where Conwell’s father would take his charge, and onward to Bellows Falls and Canada. Conwell tells, too, of meeting Frederick Douglass, the colored orator, in that little cottage in the hills. “‘I never saw my father,’ Douglass said one day--his father was a white man--‘and I remember little of my mother except that once she tried to keep an overseer from whipping me, and the lash cut across her own face, and her blood fell over me.  CONTROL ITS GOING AND TURNING UNTIL IT WAS QUITE READY TO GO AND TURN BY ITSELF THE CONWELL HOUSE WAS A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD AND RUSSELL CONWELL REMEMBERS WHEN A LAD SEEING THE ESCAPING SLAVES THAT HIS FATHER HAD DRIVEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND TEMPORARILY HIDDEN THOSE WERE HEROIC DAYS HE SAYS QUIETLY AND ONCE IN A WHILE MY FATHER LET ME GO WITH HIM THEY WERE WONDERFUL NIGHT DRIVES THE COWERING SLAVES THE DARKNESS OF THE ROAD THE CAUTION AND SILENCE AND DREAD OF IT ALL THIS UNDERGROUND ROAD HE REMEMBERS WAS FROM PHILADELPHIA TO NEW HAVEN THENCE TO SPRINGFIELD WHERE CONWELL'S FATHER WOULD TAKE HIS CHARGE AND ONWARD THE BELLOWS FALLS AND CANADA CONWELL TELLS TOO OF MEETING FREDERICK DOUGLAS THE COLORED ORATOR IN THAT LITTLE COTTAGE ON THE HILLS I NEVER SAW MY FATHER DOUGLAS SAID ONE DAY HIS FATHER WAS A WHITE MAN AND I REMEMBER LITTLE OF MY MOTHER EXCEPT THAT ONCE SHE TRIED TO KEEP AN OVERSEER FROM WHIPPING ME AND THE LASH CUT ACROSS HER OWN FACE AND HER BLOOD FELL OVER ME
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