he North permitted itself to be silenced by three
fugitive slaves.... We promenaded the Exhibition between six and
seven hours, and visited nearly every portion of the vast
edifice. Among the thousands whom we met in our perambulations,
who dreamed of any impropriety in a gentleman of character and
standing, like Mr. McDonnell, walking arm-in-arm with a colored
woman; or an elegant and accomplished young lady, like Miss
Thompson, (daughter of the Hon. George Thompson, M.C.), becoming
the promenading companion of a colored man? Did the English
peers or peeresses? Not the most aristocratic among them. Did
the representatives of any other country have their notions of
propriety shocked by the matter? None but Americans. To see the
arm of a beautiful English young lady passed through that of 'a
nigger,' taking ices and other refreshments with him, upon terms
of the most perfect equality, certainly was enough to 'rile,'
and evidently did 'rile' the slave-holders who beheld it; but
there was no help for it. Even the New York Broadway bullies
would not have dared to utter a word of insult, much less lift a
finger against Wm. Wells Brown, when walking with his fair
companion in the World's Exhibition. It was a circumstance not
to be forgotten by these Southern Bloodhounds. Probably, for the
first time in their lives, they felt themselves thoroughly
muzzled; they dared not even to bark, much less bite. Like the
meanest curs, they had to sneak through the Crystal Palace,
unnoticed and uncared for; while the victims who had been
rescued from their jaws, were warmly greeted by visitors from
all parts of the country.

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Brown and the Crafts have paid several other visits to the Great
Exhibition, in one of which, Wm. Craft succeeded in getting some
Southerners "out" upon the Fugitive Slave Bill, respecting which a
discussion was held between them in the American department. Finding
themselves worsted at every point, they were compelled to have recourse
to lying, and unblushingly denied that the bill contained the provisions
which Craft alleged it did. Craft took care to inform them who and what
he was. He told them that there had been too much information upon that
measure diffused in England for lying to conceal them. He has
subsequently met the same parties, who, with contemptible h