After dinner two brethren came in, to whom I had been introduced at the meeting-house.

After some desultory talk, they asked me: "_Are you an abolitionist_ ?" I was both angry and confounded.

I had never in my life made myself conspicuous in this controversy that was going on between North and South, and why should I be insulted with such a question.

I did not answer yes or no, but proceeded to give my views on the subject in general.

They listened and remarked that they did not see anything offensive in such views; then made this apology for their seeming rudeness: An old man, a preacher, whom they called Father Clark, had come from Pennsylvania to Chillicothe to live with a married daughter, and had said something concerning slavery offensive to the people, and they had called a meeting of the citizens, and he had been driven out of town and ordered never to return.