My attention has been fixed upon him for the last ten years, for I have felt confident that God had set him apart for some great good to the negro.

In a letter dated Peterborough, November 7th, 1848, he says:-- "J.W.C.

PENNINGTON, "Slight as is my _personal_ acquaintance with you, I nevertheless am well acquainted with you.

I am familiar with many passages in your history--all that part of your history extending from the time when, a sturdy blacksmith, you were running away from Maryland oppression, down to the present, when you are the successor of my lamented friend, Theodore S.Wright.Let me add that my acquaintance with you has inspired me with a high regard for your wisdom and integrity." Give us a few more such men in America, and slavery will soon be numbered among the things that were.

A few men who will not only have the moral courage to aim the severing blow at the chattel relation between master and slave, without parley, palliation or compromise; but who have also the christian fidelity to brave public scorn and contumely, to seize a coloured man by the hand, and elevate him to the position from whence the avarice and oppression of the whites have degraded him.