that the Liverpool agent had ordered my
berth to be given to another, and had forbidden my entering the saloon!
This contemptible conduct met with stern rebuke from the British press.
For, upon the point of leaving England, I took occasion to expose the
disgusting tyranny, in the columns of the London _Times_. That journal,
and other leading journals throughout the United Kingdom, held up the
outrage to unmitigated condemnation. So good an opportunity for calling
out a full expression of British sentiment on the subject, had not
before occurred, and it was most fully embraced. The result was, that
Mr. Cunard came out in a letter to the public journals, assuring them
of his regret at the outrage, and promising that the like should never
occur again on board his steamers; and the like, we believe, has never
since occurred on board the steamships of the Cunard line.

It is not very pleasant to be made the subject of such insults; but if
all such necessarily resulted as this one did, I should be very happy
to bear, patiently, many more than I have borne, of{303} the same sort.
Albeit, the lash of proscription, to a man accustomed to equal social
position, even for a time, as I was, has a sting for the soul hardly
less severe than that which bites the flesh and draws the blood from the
back of the plantation slave. It was rather hard, after having enjoyed
nearly two years of equal social privileges in England, often dining
with gentlemen of great literary, social, political, and religious
eminence never, during the whole time, having met with a single word,
look, or gesture, which gave me the slightest reason to think my color
was an offense to anybody--now to be cooped up in the stern of the
"Cambria," and denied the right to enter the saloon, lest my dark
presence should be deemed an offense to some of my democratic
fellow-passengers. The reader will easily imagine what must have been my
feelings.

CHAPTER XXV. _Various Incidents_

NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE--UNEXPECTED OPPOSITION--THE OBJECTIONS TO IT--THEIR
PLAUSIBILITY ADMITTED--MOTIVES FOR COMING TO ROCHESTER--DISCIPLE OF MR.
GARRISON--CHANGE OF OPINION--CAUSES LEADING TO IT--THE CONSEQUENCES OF
THE CHANGE--PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOR--AMUSING CONDESCENSION--"JIM CROW
CARS"--COLLISIONS WITH CONDUCTORS AND BRAKEMEN--TRAINS ORDERED NOT TO
STOP AT LYNN--AMUSING DOMESTIC SCENE--SEPARATE TABLES FOR MASTER AND
MAN--PREJUDICE UNNATURAL--ILLUSTRATIONS--IN HIGH COMPANY--ELEVATION