be a very superior
man there; but I soon found that, though I knew a great deal more
Greek and Latin and mathematics than most of the men there, I was
a child to them in the science of government and history. Why,"
said he, "you have no idea of the progress of Liberia. The men
who go there are freemen--citizens; the burdens of society are
upon them; and they feel that they must begin to educate
themselves, and they are self-educated men. The President of
Liberia, Mr. Benson, was a slave about seven years ago on a
plantation in this country. He went to Liberia. He was a man of
uncommon talents. He educated himself to the duties which he
found himself called upon to perform as a citizen. And when Mr.
Benson visited England a year ago, he had a perfect ovation. The
white ladies and gentlemen of England, those who were really
anti-slavery in their feelings--who love liberty--followed him
wherever he went. They opened their houses, they had their
_soirees_, and they welcomed him by every kind of demonstration
of their good wishes for Liberia."

Now, Mrs. President, the great object that I had in view in
rising, was to give you a representative from South Carolina.
(Applause). I mourn exceedingly that she has taken the position
she has. I once had a brother who, had he been there, would have
stood by Judge Pettigrew in his protest against the action of the
South. He, many years ago, during the time of nullification in
1832, was in the Senate of South Carolina, and delivered an able
address, in which he discussed these very points, and showed that
the South had no right of secession; that, in becoming an
integral part of the United States, they had themselves
voluntarily surrendered that right. And he remarked, "If you
persist in this contest, you will be like a girdled tree, which
must perish and die. You can not stand." (Applause).

THE PRESIDENT (Lucy Stone): Mrs. Weld thinks it would be too bad
to send the Southern aristocrats and Northern copperheads to
Liberia: I do not know but it would. I am equally sure that it
would be too bad to send them among the laboring people of
England, who are thoroughly, heartily, and wholly on the side of
the loyal North. They ought not to be sent there. I would
suggest, when they are fairly subdued, that