of furthering the abolition cause on every suitable occasion.  One evening I spent with a respectable minister, who is a man of color, and who assured me that most of the intelligent persons of his class in New York approve of the course pursued by the late Convention in London, and the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.  I saw at his house a man who had purchased his freedom for twelve hundred dollars, intending to remain in the same State, but, as in a precisely similar case already noticed, he afterwards found he had no alternative but to emigrate, leaving his still enslaved family behind him, or to be again sold into slavery himself, under the laws enacted to drive out free people of color.  He was trying to raise the large sum of fourteen hundred dollars, to purchase his wife and four children.

[Footnote A:  This illness terminated fatally.  One of his intimate friends in this country, has favored me with the following communication respecting him.  “Samuel Parsons had been from early life, a warm friend to the African race; his love of peace rendered him at the first accessible to prejudice against the American Anti-Slavery Society, through the misrepresentations respecting its violent and rash measures; which misrepresentations it was much more easy to believe than to investigate.  Yet his interest for the negro and colored population of the United States continued, and he extended acts of protection and kindness towards them, whenever opportunity for it was afforded.  In the Eleventh Month, last year, I find the following paragraph in one of his letters to us, viz.  ’Though sensible that I am drawing towards the close of time, I cannot avoid taking a deep interest in the moral reformation, relative to slavery and intemperance, which is progressing in the earth; my son Robert and I look at these publications as they appear, with deep solicitude.  The proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of the world, and its movements, are of great moment to the whole civilized world.  The anti-slavery cause, has not, I fear, advanced much the last year; the separation in the National Society, and the truckling to the South of the politicians of both sides, during the late Presidential election, has for a time marred the work; but the anti-slavery banner of a third party is still displayed, and it will probably continue to nominate till it seriously influences the elections.  In the mean time, the individual States, one after another, are freeing the colored people from part of their civil disabilities.  A hard battle is to be fought, but mighty is truth, and must prevail.’”]