Disclosures and Confessions of Frank; A. Wilmot, the Slave Thief and Negro Runner: With an Accurate Account of the Under-Ground Railroad! What It Is a Hardback -

First, one thousand dollars in Southern bank bills, was given to each man for his expenses, and the route which he was to traverse laid out on a map. The whole of us were furnished with freedom papers, printed in blank, with the forged signatures of the judges of the various judicial districts lying along the line of our Under ground Railway. Our plan of operation was almost similar, and by giving my own experience as an agent and conductor, the reader will have a very fair idea of what my colleagues did.

Leaving Boston in September, 1851, I embarked on board a packet bound for Mobile, where I arrived in due time, without any incident occurring worthy of note. I had been furnished with letters of introduction by Boston merchants, (who knew not of my plans, ) and these recommendatory epistles gave me a welcome truly Southern and genial in its character. I was Shortly after my arrival, surrounded by a circle of the best of Mobile's citizens, and when they exhibited in so many ways the generous hospitality of their feelings, my conscience almost smote me with the reflection that I was a villain indeed, to try to injure a people who did all in their power to render me exquisitely happy and contented. And here let me take a retrospective view of things, as I saw them in the South - a truthful view, unbiassed and unprejudiced.

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