Should you object or dare refuse, we shall certainly _cane somebody_, or else do what we have threatened for the last quarter of a century,--"DISSOLVE THE UNION!" Bah! My house has ever been open to the fugitive slaves; but more particularly when I resided in Rochester, did I have occasion to see and feel the distresses of that class of persons; and it appears to me, that the heart must be of adamant, that can turn coldly away from the pleadings of the poor, frightened, flying fugitive from Southern bondage.
For many years past, I have been a close and interested observer of my race, both free and enslaved.

I have observed with great pleasure, the gradual improvement in intelligence and condition of the free colored people of the North.

In proportion as prejudice has diminished, they have gradually advanced; nor can I believe that there is any other great impediment in the way to a higher state of improvement.

That prejudice against color is not destroyed, we very well know.

Its effects may be seen in our down-cast, discouraged, and groveling countrymen, if no where else.