t in the body
politic than a loyal black man.... Moses, the meekest man on
earth, led the children of Israel over the Red Sea, but was not
permitted to see them settled in Canaan. Mr. Lincoln has led up
through another Red Sea to the table land of triumphant victory,
and God has seen fit to summon for the new era another man. It
is ours then to bow to the Chastener and let our honored and
loved chieftain go. Surely the everlasting arms that have hushed
him so strangely to sleep are able to guide the nation through
its untrod future; but in vain should be this fearful baptism of
blood if from the dark bosom of slavery springs such terrible
crimes. Let the whole nation resolve that the whole virus shall
be eliminated from its body; that in the future slavery shall
only be remembered as a thing of the past that shall never have
the faintest hope of a resurrection."

Up to this point, we have spoken of Mrs. Harper as a laborer, battling
for freedom under slavery and the war. She is equally earnest in
laboring for Equality before the law--education, and a higher manhood,
especially in the South, among the Freedmen.

For the best part of several years, since the war, she has traveled very
extensively through the Southern States, going on the plantations and
amongst the lowly, as well as to the cities and towns, addressing
schools, Churches, meetings in Court Houses, Legislative Halls, &c.,
and, sometimes, under the most trying and hazardous circumstances;
influenced in her labor of love, wholly by the noble impulses of her own
heart, working her way along unsustained by any Society. In this
mission, she has come in contact with all classes--the original
slaveholders and the Freedmen, before and since the Fifteenth Amendment
bill was enacted. Excepting two of the Southern States (Texas and
Arkansas), she has traveled largely over all the others, and in no
instance has she permitted herself, through fear, to disappoint an
audience, when engagements had been made for her to speak, although
frequently admonished that it would be dangerous to venture in so doing.

We first quote from a letter dated Darlington, S.C., May 13, 1867:

"You will see by this that I am in the sunny South.... I here
read and see human nature under new lights and phases. I meet
with a people eager to hear, ready to listen, as if they felt
that the slumber of the ages had been b