reform in this country, and whose public
and private acts, if you were acquainted with, you would feel
the same esteem and affection for him as is felt towards him by
Mr. Thompson, myself and many others)--these ladies and
gentlemen, together with myself, met at Mr. Thompson's house,
and, in company with Mrs. Thompson, and Miss Amelia Thompson,
the Crafts and Brown, proceeded from thence to the Exhibition.
Saturday was selected, as a day upon which the largest number of
the aristocracy and wealthy classes attend the Crystal Palace,
and the company was, on this occasion, the most distinguished
that had been gathered together within its walls since its
opening day. Some fifteen thousand, mostly of the upper classes,
were there congregated, including the Queen, Prince Albert, and
the royal children, the anti-slavery Duchess of Sutherland, (by
whom the fugitives were evidently favorably regarded), the Duke
of Wellington, the Bishops of Winchester and St. Asaph, a large
number of peers, peeresses, members of Parliament, merchants and
bankers, and distinguished men from almost all parts of the
world, surpassing, in variety of tongue, character and costume,
the description of the population of Jerusalem on the day of
Pentecost--a season of which it is hoped the Great Exhibition
will prove a type, in the copious outpouring of the holy spirit
of brotherly union, and the consequent diffusion, throughout the
world, of the anti-slavery gospel of good will to all men.

In addition to the American exhibitors, it so happened that the
American visitors were particularly numerous, among whom the
experienced eyes of Brown and the Crafts enabled them to detect
slave-holders by dozens. Mr. McDonnell escorted Mrs. Craft, and
Mrs. Thompson; Miss Thompson, at her own request, took the arm
of Wm. Wells Brown, whose companion she elected to be for the
day; Wm. Craft walked with Miss Amelia Thompson and myself. This
arrangement was purposely made in order that there might be no
appearance of patronizing the fugitives, but that it might be
shown that we regarded them as our equals, and honored them for
their heroic escape from Slavery. Quite contrary to the feeling
of ordinary visitors, the American department was our chief
attraction. Upon arriving at Powers' Greek Slave, our glorious
anti-slavery