All his writings are marked by varied excellence; yet their chief characteristic is an irresistible and overwhelming power of argument.  Although brief and compressed in style, he exhausts his subject; and his two principal works, though on warmly controverted topics, have never been replied to.  He would be a bold antagonist who should enter the lists against him:  he would be a yet bolder ally who should attempt to go over the same ground, or to do better what has been done so well.

One of the most voluminous and popular writers that ever lived, observed to a friend, “that he was more proud of his compositions for manure, than of any other compositions with which he had any concern.”  My friend, has the same love of rural occupations, and has found severe manual labor essential for the recovery of health, broken by labor of another kind.  I found him at work on his farm, driving his own wagon and oxen, with a load of rails.  When he had disposed of his freight, we mounted the wagon, and drove to his home.  Two or three of his fellow-students at the Lane Seminary arrived about the same time, and we spent the day in agreeable, and, I trust, profitable intercourse.  In the household arrangements of this distinguished family, Dr. Graham’s dietetic system is rigidly adopted, which excludes meat, butter, coffee, tea, and all intoxicating beverages.  I can assure all who may be interested to know, that this Roman simplicity of living does not forbid enjoyment, when the guest can share with it the affluence of such minds as daily meet at their table.  The “Graham system,” as it is called, numbers many adherents in America, who are decided in its praise.

My friends, Theodore D. and Angelina Weld, and Sarah Grimke, sympathize, to a considerable extent, with the views on “women’s rights,” held by one section of abolitionists; yet they deeply regret that this, or any other extraneous doctrine, should have been made an apple of discord; and, since the rise of these unhappy divisions, they have held aloof from both the anti-slavery organizations, though, as among the most able and successful laborers in the field, they may justly be accounted allies by each party.  Difference of opinion on these points did not, for a moment, interrupt the pleasure of our intercourse; and I could not but wish, that those, of whatever party, who are accustomed to judge harshly of all who cannot pronounce their “shibboleth,” might be instructed by the candid, charitable, and peace-loving deportment of Theodore D. Weld.

During my visit to New York, I became acquainted with many who were deeply interested in the abolition cause, not a few of whom were members of my own religious society.  Among these, I may particularly mention my venerable friends, Richard Mott and Samuel Parsons.  I paid a second visit to the residence of the latter at Flushing, but regret to say, I found him too unwell to enjoy company.[A] His sons are anxiously desirous