No friend of the slave, however distant, escaped his quick sympathy or ready reinforcements.

To him the free people of color turned for championship, and to the _Liberator_ as a mouthpiece.

The battle for their rights and for the freedom of their brethren in the South advanced apace.
Everywhere the army of their friends and the army of their foes were in motion, and the rising storm winds of justice and iniquity were beginning "to bellow through the vast and boundless deep" of a nation's soul..