years ago, when Mr. Douglass was entering the stage, on leaving Peterboro, I ventured to say to him "learn to forget you are a colored man." To me who believed that "there never was a good horse of a bad color," it seemed, as it were, certain, that color had little or no place in regulating the power-value of animals, man included. Now my dear friend "don't fret your cattle on the start" and you know it takes more of a man to stand prosperity than adversity.

Your infidel fellow-[feeler?]

Chas. D. Miller

March 19^th 1899