But what he found was a sad lack of interest in the slave.
Everywhere he went he encountered what appeared to him to be the most monstrous indifference and apathy on the subject.

The prejudices of the free States seemed to him stronger than were those of the South.

Instead of receiving aid and encouragement to continue the good work of himself and coadjutor, and for the doing of which he had served a term of seven weeks in prison, men, even his best friends sought to influence him to give it up, and to persuade him to forsake the slave, and to turn his time and talents to safer and more profitable enterprises nearer home.
He was informed by these worldly wise men and Job's counselors that his "scheme was visionary, fanatical, unattainable." "Why should he make himself," they argued, "an exile from home and all that he held dear on earth, and sojourn in a strange land, among enemies whose hearts were dead to every noble sentiment ?" Ah! he himself confessed that all were against his return to Baltimore.

But his love of the slave was stronger than the strength of the temptation.

He put all these selfish objections behind him.