Ah, when they applauded me, how I longed to speak! to pour out my whole soul to them, and call upon them, as men, to--.

But that will come in time.

I have found a friend, who has promised to write dramas especially for me.

Merely republican ones at first; in which I can give full vent to my passion, and hurl forth the eternal laws of liberty, which their consciences may--must--at last, apply for themselves.

But soon, he says, we shall be able to dare to approach the real subject, if not in America, still in Europe; and then, I trust, the coloured actress will stand forth as the championess of her race, of all who are oppressed, in every capital in Europe, save, alas! Italy and the Austria who crushes her.
I have taken, I should tell you, an Italian name.