I have taken some pains to scatter my papers, the North Star and the Practical Christian, and I hope they will prove as 'bread cast upon the waters, found after many days,' I have, from my childhood, been a friend of the colored race, always sympathising with them in their innumerable woes and sufferings, which can neither be told by tongue or pen, nor conceived of by the imagination. When I think of the tears, the sighs, the groans of the oppressed, which, no doubt, reach to High Heaven, I do not marvel that Jefferson should thus express himself—'I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever.' I do not expect to see the day when the blest jubilee shall be sounded, being now in my 69th year; but I expect to die in the full faith that it will be done. I have no more doubt of it, than I have that the Israelites were released from their cruel bondage in Egypt.

Mary WatsonWatson, Mary

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