e _J. C. Holly_ 184

Forward (from the German) _Rev. T. W. Higginson_ 186

What has Canada to do with
Slavery? _Thos. Henning_ 187

A Fragment _Rev. Rufus Ellis_ 190

The Encroachment of the Slave
Power _John Jay, Esq._ 192

The Dishonor of Labor _Horace Greeley_ 194

The Evils of Colonization _Wm. Watkins_ 198

The Basis of the American
Constitution _Hon. Wm. H. Seward_ 201

A Wish _Mrs. C. M. Kirkland_ 207

A Dialogue _C. A. Bloss_ 210

A time of Justice will come _Hon. Gerit Smith_ 225

Hope and Confidence _Prof. G. L. Reason_ 226

A Letter that speaks for itself _Jane G. Swisshelm_ 230

On Freedom _R. W. Emerson_ 235

Mary Smith. An Anti-Slavery
Reminiscence _Hon S. E. Sewell_ 236

Freedom--Liberty _Dr. J. McCune Smith_ 241

An Aspiration _Rev. E. H. Chapin_ 242

The Dying Soliloquy of the
Victim of the Wilkesbarre
Tragedy _Mrs. H. H. Greenough_ 243

Let all be Free _Hon. C. M. Clay_ 248

Extract from a Speech _Frederick Douglass_ 251

Extract from an Unpublished Poem
on Freedom _William D. Snow_ 256

Letter _Rev. H. Ward Beecher_ 273

A Day Spent at Playford Hall _Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe_ 277

Teaching the Slave to Read _Mary Irving_ 304

INTRODUCTION.

The Colored People's "Industrial College."

WHAT SOME OF THE BUILDERS HAVE THOUGHT.

A word oft-times is expressive of an entire policy. Such is the term
_Abolition_. Though formerly used as a synonym of _Anti-Slavery_,
people now clearly understand that the designs of those who have
ranged themselves under the first of these systems of reform are of
deeper significance and wider scope than are the objects contemplated
by the latter, and concern themselves not only with the great primary
question of bodily freedo