should I have rejoiced to know that such efforts as these were
being made. I only wonder that I had such feelings. But in the
midst of temptation I was preserved, and my sympathy grew warmer,
and my hatred of slavery more inveterate, until at last I have
exiled myself from my native land, because I could no longer
endure to hear the wailing of the slave.

I fled to the land of Penn; for here, thought I, sympathy for the
slave will surely be found. But I found it not. The people were
kind and hospitable, but the slave had no place in their
thoughts. I therefore shut up my grief in my own heart. I
remembered that I was a Carolinian, from a State which framed
this iniquity by law. Every Southern breeze wafted to me the
discordant tones of weeping and wailing, shrieks and groans,
mingled with prayers and blasphemous curses. My heart sank within
me at the abominations in the midst of which I had been born and
educated. What will it avail, cried I, in bitterness of spirit,
to expose to the gaze of strangers the horrors and pollutions of
slavery, when there is no ear to hear nor heart to feel and pray
for the slave? But how different do I feel now! Animated with
hope, nay, with an assurance of the triumph of liberty and
good-will to man, I will lift up my voice like a trumpet, and
show this people what they can do to influence the Southern mind
and overthrow slavery. [Shouting, and stones against the
windows].

We often hear the question asked, "What shall we do?" Here is an
opportunity. Every man and every woman present may do something,
by showing that we fear not a mob, and in the midst of revilings
and threatenings, pleading the cause of those who are ready to
perish. Let me urge every one to buy the books written on this
subject; read them, and lend them to your neighbors. Give your
money no longer for things which pander to pride and lust, but
aid in scattering "the living coals of truth upon the naked heart
of the nation"; in circulating appeals to the sympathies of
Christians in behalf of the outraged slave.

But it is said by some, our "books and papers do not speak the
truth"; why, then, do they not contradict what we say? They can
not. Moreover, the South has entreated, nay, commanded us, to be
silent; and what greater evidence o