ney has
been appropriated, is made use of by the dealers in human beings
as a place of deposit and market; and thus you, in common with
your fellow citizens, are made indirect participators in a
traffic equal in atrocity to that foreign trade, the suppression
of which, to use the words of your President in his late
message, 'is required by the public honor, and the promptings of
humanity.'

[Footnote A: On being released from prison, Dr. Crandall went to
Kingston, Jamaica, to recruit his health. A gentleman of that
city, W. Wemyss Anderson, found him in his lodgings, solitary
and friendless, and rapidly sinking under his disease. He took
him, though a perfect stranger, into his own house; and the last
days of Dr. Crandall were soothed by the kind sympathy and
attentions of a Christian family. It was also manifest, that he
enjoyed the sunshine of inward peace, and the rich consolations
of the gospel. His kind host, whom I count it a privilege to
call my friend, obeyed, in this instance, the apostolic
injunction, and experienced the consequent reward, "Be not
forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have
entertained angels unawares."]

"As one who has devoted much of his humble labors to the cause
you wish to promote, I perhaps shall be excused for thus stating
these facts to you, as they all passed before my personal
observation in the course of a few hours. I shall deem it right
to publish them in Europe, where I am about shortly to return.
Recollect, they all occurred and exist within the District of
Columbia, and that those who elect the legislators who uphold
the slave system, are justly responsible for it in the sight of
God and man. Is it not all the natural consequence of your
electing slave-holders and their abettors to the highest offices
of your State and nation? Some of your most intelligent citizens
have given it as their opinion that fully two-thirds of the
whole population of the United States are in favor of the
abolition of slavery; and my own observation, since I landed on
these shores, not only confirms this opinion, but has convinced
me that there is a very rapid accession to their numbers daily
taking place; and yet we have the extraordinary fact exhibited
to the world, that about two hundred and fifty thousand
slave-holders--a large