He came, I think, from some place in the Connecticut Valley, but whether Vermont, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts, I don't know." "Is he an educated man ?" "He got a kind of classical education at one of the country colleges there.

I suspect he has as much education as is good for him.

But he went West very soon after leaving college, and being then young and fresh from that hot-bed of abolition, he threw himself into the anti-slavery movement in Illinois, and after a long struggle he rose with the wave.

He would not do the same thing now." "Why not ?" "He is older, more experienced, and not so wise.

Besides, he has no longer the time to wait.