than this, and we often meet with it: "He ceased to
be a slave, and became a man." I read lately the report of a lecture at
the North, by an eminent gentleman, of great moral worth, and highly
respected. He said, "A man cannot be, voluntarily, a slave, without
having his manhood crushed out of him." That might be true in our case;
but having seen manhood forced into benighted natures here, and splendid
specimens of man as the result, I was, by this remark, reminded again of
the delusiveness which there is sometimes in the best of logic. You gave
us a good specimen in your admirable illustration of no water in the
moon. A comparison of the slaves with the free negroes of the North, and
in Canada, and with the free colored population in some of the Slave
States, will satisfy any impartial spectator that manhood is full as
conspicuous in the slaves, as a body, as in the free negroes.

Here are two extracts from Northern papers, which, true or false, awaken
compassion in every human bosom toward the free colored people. Indeed,
allowing these statements, so unfavorable to them, to be mostly false,
it reveals the antipathy of the white to the colored race when the
blacks come to seek equality with the whites. Let these free blacks be
mixed up in large proportions with society in England and Scotland, and
if Canadians feel as they are here represented, we may be sure that the
present tone of the British people with regard to American slavery and
the blacks, would also be modified. But here are the extracts:--

"Getting Sick of Them.--The colored persons of Toronto, having had a
meeting to denounce Colonel John Prince, a member of the Canadian
Parliament, for speaking against them, he publishes a reply, in
which he says,--

"'It has been my misfortune, and the misfortune of my family, to
live among those blacks (and they have lived upon us) for
twenty-four years. I have employed hundreds of them, and with the
exception of one, named Richard Hunter, not one of them has done for
us a week's honest labor. I have taken them into my service, fed and
clothed them, year after year, on their arrival from the States, and
in return have generally found them rogues and thieves, and a
graceless, worthless, thriftless set of vagabonds. This is my very
plain and simple description of the darkies as a body, and it would
be indorsed by all the Western white men, with very few
excep