It was common, in passing through the streets of Hamilton, to meet every few rods, a colored man in uniform, with a sword at his side, marching about in all the military pomp allowed only to white men in this _free republic_.
All being in readiness, Bishop Brown opened the conference under the authority of Her Britannic Majesty, with great solemnity, which seemed to be felt by the whole assembly.

This meeting appeared to me far more interesting than the one we had attended in New York city.

The colored people were much more numerous in Hamilton, and in far better circumstances than in New York.

It is a hard case to be poor in any large city, but to be both poor and black, as was the condition of the majority of our friends in New York, was indeed a terrible calamity.

Every class, no matter how worthless they might be, would be allowed to rent a house in preference to a colored man.