The result was, nearly two thousand five hundred dollars were speedily{302} raised toward starting my paper.

For this prompt and generous assistance, rendered upon my bare suggestion, without any personal efforts on my part, I shall never cease to feel deeply grateful; and the thought of fulfilling the noble expectations of the dear friends who gave me this evidence of their confidence, will never cease to be a motive for persevering exertion.
Proposing to leave England, and turning my face toward America, in the spring of 1847, I was met, on the threshold, with something which painfully reminded me of the kind of life which awaited me in my native land.

For the first time in the many months spent abroad, I was met with proscription on account of my color.

A few weeks before departing from England, while in London, I was careful to purchase a ticket, and secure a berth for returning home, in the "Cambria"-- the steamer in which I left the United States--paying therefor the round sum of forty pounds and nineteen shillings sterling.

This was first cabin fare.