the whole italian nation, than a Mr. Ballard can
disgrace the whole Union, with his cowardly crime, against the noble
minded Miss Amelia Norman. That the spectators in that italian theatre,
must have thought the case of the so called dying man, not in such an
urgent situation as Mr. Headley did, the very coolness with which the
other man held the patient, proves it. But, if Mr. Headley did really
think the man was dying; why did not his good american heart, force him to
run to his succor? Or, at least, if he was morally suffering, and gazing
passively at the dying man as well as the rest of those italians; why he
does not suppose all those italians, though idle as he, not to have
suffered his very undecided, and painful situation?

I was in Virginia; strangers were suspected as being abolitionists: some
strangers had been mobbed, and hung on mere suspicion. In passing by a
crowd of people assembled for an election, and seeing many persons around
two men, one white and the other black, the former holding the second,
bound with a rope like Jesus Christ, when he was dragged to Golgotha, and
the white, thinking his old prisoner an escaped slave, with the smile of
an expected gain, for which he appeared to me like another Judas, I
approached the crowd; and seeing that the poor old black man was
suffering, the rope being too tight, I remarked with pity to those, who
were laughing at his sufferings, that the rope was torturing the poor
human being! Suddenly the whole crowd felt the same charity, and pity I
felt; and many went immediately to the magistrate, telling him they
doubted the man being a slave, and soon they found he was a free black. I
was in that place as a foreigner fallen from the clouds; no body was there
to protect me, had a malicious man, for the sake of mischief, whispered,
that I was an abolitionist. Mr. Headley could not have such an
apprehension in Italy, had he acted with the impulse of his good heart.

Incapacity, timidity, and indecision, which cramp the finest feelings of
the human heart, disappear in an instant from a crowded assembly, as soon
as one, among them, springs forward the first, to do a good action. The
bravest soldiers left the field of a nearly gained battle, because their
general had, at that moment, the apprehension of death; and coward
soldiers gained battles, because their general was brave, daring the whole
time they were fighting. A motley crowd of people are less than soldiers;
and