"He makes lengthy speeches on the subject, and has published two of them in pamphlet form.

Have you seen them ?" "Yes, he sent them to me.

I tried to get through one of them, but it was too heavy, I had to give it up.

Besides, I had no patience with them; they abounded in mis-statements respecting the free coloured people.

Why even here in the slave states--in the cities of Savanah and Charleston--they are much better situated than he describes them to be in New York; and since they can and do prosper here, where they have such tremendous difficulties to encounter, I know they cannot be in the condition he paints, in a state where they are relieved from many of the oppressions they labour under here.