At the close of his college life Mr.Miller had not only mastered the languages, mathematics, rhetoric, and logic, but had learned the secret windings of the human heart.

He understood the art of pleasing.
These were the times when the anti-slavery question was up for hot discussion.

In all the neighboring towns conventions were held in which James G.Birney, a Southern gentleman who had emancipated his slaves, Charles Stuart of Scotland, and George Thompson of England, Garrison, Phillips, May, Beriah Greene, Foster, Abby Kelly, Lucretia Mott, Douglass, and others took part.

Here, too, John Brown, Sanborn, Morton, and Frederick Douglass met to talk over that fatal movement on Harper's Ferry.

On the question of temperance, also, the people were in a ferment.