He was sent to Europe to lecture, and won the friendship of several Englishmen, who gave him $750, with which he purchased his freedom.

He edited a paper in Rochester, N.Y., and afterward conducted the _New Era_ in Washington.

For several years he was Marshal of the District of Columbia.

He became the first colored man in the United States, the peer of any man in the country, and died honored by all in 1895.
"What has been done can be done again," said the boy with no chance who became Lord Beaconsfield, England's great prime minister.

"I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome greater obstacles." Jewish blood flowed in his veins, and everything seemed against him, but he remembered the example of Joseph, who became prime minister of Egypt four thousand years before, and that of Daniel, who was prime minister to the greatest despot of the world five centuries before the birth of Christ.