later and I've tried to get a copy of lt« 

 Ollbs Pid you know Mr. Vlllard? 

 Coggins: I laet him a ntsaber of times and had eorrespondenee 



with hSMm His grandfather, Wllllaja Lloyd Garrison, 



and f assiaore Wllllanson were contemporaries and 

 f" " '■' 

 whiil ny great«uncle went to Jail for hla tmder- 



ground railroad activities, Qarrlson and Whlttier 



oazae to his defense* 



011bs This must hava been in Philadelphia* 



Cogglnst 7eSt As I know the story. Uncle Passmore was 



Secretary of the Antl«»Slavery Society* It was his 

 duty to go to the boats and trains and sieet the 

 colored people, and explain that under Pennsylvania 

 law they we2*e free* If the slaves wanted to escape ^ 

 they would help then* In the case that made 

 trouble. It happend that the slave and her two 

 children belonged to a Southern Senator. Through 

 his influence Uncle Passmora was arrested and 

 tried under the Federal law and sentenced to 

 nine months in jail* 



011b s Something to be proud of* Was your great«-uncle 

 more active after that? 



Cogglnst Veil, I don*t think he had much chance afterwards* 

 Bat he had helped to organize the first Republican 

 convention, the one that nominated Fremont* The 

 war soon followed* 



