ng the friends of freedom upon the fact that the
anti-slavery cause is not a new thing under the sun; not some moral
delusion which a few years' experience may dispel. It has appeared
among men in all ages, and summoned its advocates from all ranks. Its
foundations are laid in the deepest and holiest convictions, and from
whatever soul the demon, selfishness, is expelled, there will this cause
take up its abode. Old as the everlasting hills; immovable as the
throne of God; and certain as the purposes of eternal power, against all
hinderances, and against all delays, and despite all the mutations
of human instrumentalities, it is the faith of my soul, that this
anti-slavery cause will triumph.

FOOTNOTES

[Footnote 1: Letter, Introduction to _Life of Frederick Douglass_, Boston, 1841.]

[Footnote 2: One of these ladies, impelled by the same noble spirit which
carried Miss Nightingale to Scutari, has devoted her time, her untiring
energies, to a great extent her means, and her high literary abilities,
to the advancement and support of Frederick Douglass' Paper, the only
organ of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in
the United States.]

[Footnote 3: Mr. Stephen Myers, of Albany, deserves mention as one of the most
persevering among the colored editorial fraternity.]

[Footnote 4: The German physiologists have even discovered vegetable
matter--starch--in the human body. See _Med. Chirurgical Rev_., Oct.,
1854, p. 339.]

[Footnote 5: Mr. Wm. H. Topp, of Albany.]

[Footnote 6: This is the same man who gave me the roots to prevent my being
whipped by Mr. Covey. He was "a clever soul." We used frequently to talk
about the fight with Covey, and as often as we did so, he would claim my
success as the result of the roots which he gave me. This superstition
is very common among the more ignorant slaves. A slave seldom dies, but
that his death is attributed to trickery.]

[Footnote 7: He was a whole-souled man, fully imbued with a love of his afflicted
and hunted people, and took pleasure in being to me, as was his wont,
"Eyes to the blind, and legs to the lame." This brave and devoted
man suffered much from the persecutions common to all who have been
prominent benefactors. He at last became blind, and needed a friend to
guide him, even as he had been a guide to others. Even in his blindness,
he exhibited his manly character. In search of health, he became a
physician. When hope of gaining