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feeling, it was whipped out of me long since, by the lash of the
American soul-drivers.

"In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her
bright blue sky, her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her
beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains.
But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to
mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal
spirit of slave-holding, robbery, and wrong; when I remember that
with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren
are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her
most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged
sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing, and led to
reproach myself that any thing could fall from my lips in praise
of such a land. America will not allow her children to love her.
She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest
friends, to be her worst enemies. May God give her repentance,
before it is too late, is the ardent prayer of my heart. I will
continue to pray, labor, and wait, believing that she cannot
always be insensible to the dictates of justice, or deaf to the
voice of humanity.

"My opportunities for learning the character and condition of the
people of this land have been very great. I have travelled almost
from the Hill of Howth to the Giant's Causeway, and from the
Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear. During these travels, I have met
with much in the character and condition of the people to
approve, and much to condemn; much that has thrilled me with
pleasure, and very much that has filled me with pain. I will not,
in this letter, attempt to give any description of those scenes
which have given me pain. This I will do hereafter. I have
enough, and more than your subscribers will be disposed to read
at one time, of the bright side of the picture. I can truly say,
I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life since
landing in this country. I seem to have undergone a
transformation. I live a new life. The warm and generous
cooperation extended to me by the friends of my despised race;
the prompt and liberal manner with which the press has rendered
me its aid; the glorious enthusiasm with which thousands have
flocked to hear the cruel wrongs of my