"Rochester, July 2nd, 1860.

"You hold up before me the glorious promises contained in the sacred Scriptures. These are needed by none more than by these who have presumed to put themselves to the work of accomplishing the abolition of slavery in this country. There is scarcely one single interest—social, moral, religious, or physical, which is not in some way conneced with this stupendous evil. On the side of the oppressor there is power, now as in the earlier days of the world. I find much comfort in the thought that I am but a passenger on board of this ship of life. I have not the management committed to me. I am to obey orders and leave the rest to the great Captain whose wisdom is able to direct. I have only to go on in his fear and in his spirit, uttering with pen and tongue the whole truty against Slavery, leaving to Him the honour and the glory of destroying this mighty work of the devil. I long for the end of my people's bondage, and would give all I possess to witness the great Jubilee; but God can wait, and surely I may. If He whose pure eyes cannot look upon sin with allowance, can permit the day of freedom to be deferred, I can certainly work and wait. The times are just now a little brighter; but I walk by faith, not by sight, for all grounds of hope founded on external appearance have thus far signally failed and broken down under me. Twenty years

ago, slavery did not really to be rapidly hastening to its fall, but ten years ago the Fugitive Slave Bill, and the efforts to enforce it, changed the whole appearance of the struggle. Anti-Slavery, in an abolition sense, has been every since battling against heavy odds both in Church and State. Nevertheless God reigns, and we need not despair, and I for one do not. I know at any rate no better work for me during the brief period I am to stay on the earth than is found in pleading the cause of the down-trodden and the dumb.

"Since I reached home I have the satisfaction of passing nearly a score on to Canada—only two women among them all. The constant meeting with these whip-scarred brothers will not allow me to become forgetful of the four millions still in bonds."