ight well suppose, produced some merriment at the expense
of the witness for the county, and of all others, whose gullibility and
prejudice had given credit to what would have been considered, had I
been what is called a white man, an awful story."

The proceedings in the case are, I believe, still pending. My friend,
Samuel Webb, in a letter dated "11th Month 16th, 1841," says:

"Last 7th day, after several years incessant struggle, we
brought the case of the Pennsylvania Hall before the Court of
Criminal Sessions. George M. Dallas, Counsel for the County, in
opposing the award of the appraisers, (thirty-three thousand
dollars, not one-third of what it ought to have been,) spoke for
about one hour--the purport of his speech was--that here was no
mob at all, (!) that the jury appointed to ascertain the facts
had reported to the Court, that the mob, if mob it might be
called, was composed of orderly, respectable citizens; and of,
course, orderly, respectable citizens could not be a mob. After
this I should not be surprised to hear it doubted whether there
ever was such a building, or if there was, whether it was ever
destroyed; but unluckily the ruined walls are still standing,
and if I had my way, _there they should stand_, until slavery
shall be abolished, which it will be, soon after your East India
possessions can grow cotton for six cents per lb. by free
labor."

To resume the narrative: I paid a visit to the widow of Joseph
Lancaster, who, with her three children by a former husband, are living
in great obscurity in the suburbs of this city.

I returned to New York on the 10th, for the purpose of being in the city
at the time when the religious and benevolent anniversaries are held,
and of meeting parties who attend them. Here I had the pleasure of
meeting with several warm-hearted abolitionists from distant parts of
the country. The first meeting I attended was the anniversary of the
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which, though held at a
distance from the centre of the city, in consequence of the
pre-engagement of the New York Tabernacle, was well attended, and I
believe gave general satisfaction. I was present also at two other of
its meetings. I attended several adjourned sittings of a convention
called for the purpose of organizing a political "Liberty party," on the
grand principle of the abolition of slavery. The chief bus