If they have not done justice to the subject of their book, it is because the manifold blessings of a deliverance from slavery are beyond the powers of language to represent.

When I attempt, as I have done in this letter, to enumerate a few of the, I know not where to begin, or where to end.

One must _see_, in order to know and feel how unspeakable a boon these islands have received,--a boon, which is by no means confined to the emancipated slaves; but, like the dew and rains of heaven, it fell upon all the inhabitants of the land, bond and free, rich and poor, together.
It is a common thing here, when you hear one speak of the benefits of emancipation--the remark--that it ought to have taken place long ago.

Some say fifty years ago, some twenty, and some, that at any rate it ought to have taken place all at once, without any apprenticeship.

The noon-day sun is not clearer than the fact, that no preparation was required on the part of the slaves.