MR F. DOUGLASS:—For more than twenty
years I had been personally, or historically
acquainted with Lyndon King; and when the
report came here, that he had restrained the
personal liberty of his daughter, Mary, it ap-
peared to me, either that the report must be
incorrect, or else that Mr. King had been ex-
posed to the power of temptation, by which,
for the time, he had been overcome, and
from which it was to be hoped he would re-
cover, after the kind purposes of God, to
show him his weakness, if not his wickedness,
should have had their influence upon him.—In these facts, after the reports came of the
Allen affair, the mighty heavings of the col-
orphobia volcano were astonishing. I speak
nothing now of the sayings or sympathies of
the outside unbeliever, or open infidel; we
have not many, especially of the last, here;
but I speak of the sympathies and sayings of
church members—high-toned professors of
the religion of Jesus. These, with a few
honorable exceptions, were aroused; and the
various grades of that professed Savior-lov-
ing piety bubbled out in all degrees of ex-
pression, from "I think the blacks ought to
be free, but let them keep in their place," up
to "If he should come after a daughter of
mine, I'd put a bullet through him."

No wonder the name of God is every day
blasphemed through the examples of such
professed Christians. A heathen might well
enquire, "In heavenly minds can such affec-
tions dwell?"

I take the liberty in this connection to ex-
press my opinion, that Mr. Allen should be
received in society, and into all the lawful
relationships of society, as another man of
equal learning, piety and moral worth should
be received.

Since God revealed His mind (Numb. 12)
in reference to Meriam, who spoke against
Moses because he had married an Ethopian
woman, no true child of God has ever valued
humanity by the color of the skin; with him,
"A man's a man for a' that."

Few errors are more common than the ap-
plication of difference motives to men of other
times, under certain courses of action, from
those which acuate persons at the present,
under similar cases of action.

The Priest and Levite, (Luke 10,) who
passed the half dead, wounded man, are now
deemed hard-hearted and unsympathizing;
nothing is probably less true, they were full
of sympathies, they only lacked the practical,
which the press of their own business in an-
other quarter, they deemed, justified them in
leaving it to be performed by other hands,
engaged in less important business, and more
at leizure then their own. There was prob-
ably a feast at Jericho, a seat was to be
selected; or a missionary meeting, and a res-
olution to be advocated; or a revival in pro-
gress, and immortal souls to be saved—so
that their abounding sympathies were nearly
overloaded by well-defined higher motives.—Thus, in this Christian nation, the bleeding,
half dead African stranger, fallen among
thieves, has been greatly cared for, deeply
sympathized with; but if by the care of
some Samaritan, he has been healed, and is
about, like Allen, to step into honorable, so-
cial alliances, he is met with a repulse as
Tom Loker did from uncle Jacob. "Thee is
not wanted here." Association with our no-
ble Anglo-Saxon race will not answer, any
how. You are only niggers. You are poor—in low condition—a degraded race. Can't
bear amalgamation.