I had any patriotism, or
any capacity for the 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 slaveholding, 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 anything 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 traveled almost from the Hill
of Howth to the Giant's Causeway, and from the Giant's Causway, to Cape
Clear. During these travels, I have met with much in the chara@@ and
condition of the people to approve, and much to condemn; much that
@@thrilled me with pleasure, and very much that has filled me with
pain. I @@ @@t, 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 down-trodden and long-enslaved fellow-countrymen
portrayed; the deep sympathy for the slave, and the strong abhorrence of
the slaveholder, everywhere evinced;