t for the thought of his poor wife and children
still in Slavery. We invited him, the other day to a
working-men's tea party, where I had been asked to make tea for
them; and he gave us quite an able account of his travels. The
men kindly invited him to join their "Benefit Club," and told
him they would like to have "a colored brother" amongst them.
Art thou not thinking, dear friend, of asking your people to
emigrate to the African Coast, or the West India Islands? Two
gentlemen in London are writing most warmly about this. I wrote
Mr. Fitzgerald's address on the enclosed paper. Instead of being
colonizationists, in the objectionable sense, he and Mrs. Bowen
are burning with love to your people, and are fervently desirous
of doing them all the good they can. I cannot see why little
united parties should not promptly emigrate under the wing of
these gentlemen. Assure those who think and feel with thee, dear
friend, and are nobly determined to suffer rather than to sin,
that according to our very small ability we will not desert them
in their hour of trial and danger. We commend them to Him who
can do for them a thousand times more, and better than we can
either ask or think. With our united kindest remembrance,
sincerely,
Anna H. Richardson.
Westmoreland Terrace, Newcastle-On-Tyne, March 16,1860.
We have lately read the life of thy brother and sister (Peter
and Vina Still), dear friend, with the deepest interest. It is a
most touching and beautiful book, and we think should be either
reprinted in England or sent over here very largely. My husband
and I are hardly acquainted with a volume more calculated to
stir up the British mind on the subject of Slavery. Great
Britain is just now getting really warm on the Anti-slavery
subject, and is longing to shake herself from being so dependent
as hitherto, on slave produce. Why, Oh! why should not the
expatriated blacks go to free countries and grow produce for
themselves and for everybody who requires it? Why not, in time,
become "merchants and princes," in those countries? I am told
(as a secret) that this subject is likely, ere long, to be taken
up in high quarters in England. We are feeling hopeful, dear
friends, about thy crushed and persecuted people, for surely God
is working for them by ways and means
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