Then I brought a suit against Lewis, to recover the money I had paid him for the contract; and then it was that he asserted and attempted to prove, that I had forged the assignment, and therefore, had no just claim on him for the amount paid.
But in this, as in the other case, he met a defeat and made an entire failure.

I recovered all that I claimed, which, was only my just due.

One would suppose that after so many unsuccessful attempts to ruin me, he would have left me alone,--but not so with Lewis: he had the ambition of a Bonaparte; and doubtless had he possessed the advantages of an education, instead of having been born and bred a slave, he might, like an Alexander or Napoleon, have astonished the world with his deeds of daring.

I am, however, no admirer of what the world call "great men,"-- one humble, self-sacrificing Christian, like Benjamin Lundy, has far greater claim on my respect and reverence.
Lewis, failing in his second attack, backed up as he had been in all his wicked course, by a friend wearing the sacred garb of a minister of the gospel, cooled off, and it became evident to all, that he was meditating some different mode of warfare.

To this concealed confederate, I must attach great blame, on account of the influence his station and superior learning gave him, not only over Mr.Lewis, but the colonists generally, and which should have been exerted for the good of all, in truth and honesty..