the testimony of the keeper of the private jail before mentioned, that this city prison, the property of the people of the United States, and for the rebuilding of which, a large sum of your money has been appropriated, is made use of by the dealers in human beings as a place of deposit and market; and thus you, in common with your fellow citizens, are made indirect participators in a traffic equal in atrocity to that foreign trade, the suppression of which, to use the words of your President in his late message, ’is required by the public honor, and the promptings of humanity.’

[Footnote A:  On being released from prison, Dr. Crandall went to Kingston, Jamaica, to recruit his health.  A gentleman of that city, W. Wemyss Anderson, found him in his lodgings, solitary and friendless, and rapidly sinking under his disease.  He took him, though a perfect stranger, into his own house; and the last days of Dr. Crandall were soothed by the kind sympathy and attentions of a Christian family.  It was also manifest, that he enjoyed the sunshine of inward peace, and the rich consolations of the gospel.  His kind host, whom I count it a privilege to call my friend, obeyed, in this instance, the apostolic injunction, and experienced the consequent reward, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”]

“As one who has devoted much of his humble labors to the cause you wish to promote, I perhaps shall be excused for thus stating these facts to you, as they all passed before my personal observation in the course of a few hours.  I shall deem it right to publish them in Europe, where I am about shortly to return.  Recollect, they all occurred and exist within the District of Columbia, and that those who elect the legislators who uphold the slave system, are justly responsible for it in the sight of God and man.  Is it not all the natural consequence of your electing slave-holders and their abettors to the highest offices of your State and nation?  Some of your most intelligent citizens have given it as their opinion that fully two-thirds of the whole population of the United States are in favor of the abolition of slavery; and my own observation, since I landed on these shores, not only confirms this opinion, but has convinced me that there is a very rapid accession to their numbers daily taking place; and yet we have the extraordinary fact exhibited to the world, that about two hundred and fifty thousand slave-holders—­a large proportion of whom, bankrupt in fortune and reputation, have involved many of the North in their disgrace and ruin—­hold in mental bondage the whole population of this great republic, who permit themselves to be involved in the common disgrace of presenting a spectacle of national inconsistency altogether without a parallel.  I confess that, although an admirer of many of the institutions of your country, and deeply lamenting the evils of my own government,