ward
off the blow to England which must be felt by four millions of
people interested in the article to be produced if an untimely
frost or an insurrection should take place--and, above all, to lift
up Africa by means of her own children. After speaking of the
organization among the colored people, which sent out Dr. Delany
and of which Mr. Day is president, he said one of the means to
secure these ends was the establishment of a press upon a proper
footing in Canada among the fugitive slaves; and to collect for
that is now his especial work. It would aid powerfully, it was
hoped, in another way. Already American prejudice has rolled in
upon the borders of Canada--so that schoolhouse doors are closed in
the faces of colored children, and colored men denied a place upon
juries merely because of their color. It was with difficulty that
last year even in Canada they were able to secure the freedom of a
kidnapped little boy who was being dragged through the province to
be sold in the slave-mart of St. Louis. In view of all these
points, hastily presented, he asked the good will and active aid of
all the friends of liberty.

Dr. M. R. Delany, whose name has become so celebrated in connection
with the Statistical Congress, was invited to state what he had
contemplated in going to Africa, and if he would kindly do so, what
he had discovered there. Dr. Delany first dwelt upon the
expectation which had been raised in his mind when a young man, and
in the minds of the colored people of the United States, by the
beginning of the anti-slavery work there by William Lloyd Garrison
and his coadjutors. They had found, however, that all the
anti-slavery people were not of the stamp of Mr. Garrison, who, he
was proud to say, believed in giving to colored men just the same
rights and privileges as to others, and that Mr. Garrison's idea
had not, by the professed friends of the black man, been reduced to
practice. And finding that self-reliance was the best dependence,
he and others had struck out a path for themselves. After speaking
of the convention of colored people, which he and others called in
1854, to consider this subject of self-help, and of the general
organization which began then, and in which Mr. Day succeeded him
as president, he said he went to Af