With that prompt and truthful perception which has led their sisters in all ages of the world to gather at the feet and support the hands of reformers, the gentlewomen of England [2] were foremost to encourage and strengthen him to carve out for himself a path fitted to his powers and energies, in the life-battle against slavery and caste to which he was pledged.

And one stirring thought, inseparable from the British idea of the evangel of freedom, must have smote his ear from every side-- _Hereditary bondmen! know ye not Who would be free, themselves mast strike the blow ?_ The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper.

This proceeding was sorely against the wishes and the advice of the leaders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, but our author had fully grown up to the conviction of a truth which they had once promulged, but now{12} forgotten, to wit: that in their own elevation--self-elevation--colored men have a blow to strike "on their own hook," against slavery and caste.

Differing from his Boston friends in this matter, diffident in his own abilities, reluctant at their dissuadings, how beautiful is the loyalty with which he still clung to their principles in all things else, and even in this.
Now came the trial hour.

Without cordial support from any large body of men or party on this side the Atlantic, and too far distant in space and immediate interest to expect much more, after the much already done, on the other side, he stood up, almost alone, to the arduous labor and heavy expenditure of editor and lecturer.