s of the board of management of these very
schools. I talked of this outrageous inconsistent prejudice with some of
my friends; among others, the editor of a popular paper. They were all
loud in their condemnation of the state of things, but strongly of
opinion that to move at all in the matter would be highly inopportune
and injudicious. Time, they said, would settle all these questions; and,
without doubt, it will. Charles Sumner, who thought Time could afford to
have his elbow jogged about them, had just gone to his grave, leaving,
unfortunately, incomplete his bill of rights in behalf of the colored
citizens of the United States.

My servant was a citizen of the United States, having a vote, when he
was turned from the theater door as a person of color; and negroes had
been elected as Members of Congress at that very time. Strangely enough,
Philadelphia, once the seat of enthusiastic and self-devoted Quaker
abolitionism, the home of that noble and admirable woman, Lucretia Mott,
who stood heroically in its vanguard, is now one of the strongholds of
the most illiberal prejudice against the blacks.]

On Friday we acted "The School for Scandal." Our houses have been
very fine indeed, in spite of the intolerable heat of the
weather.... My ill-starred Fazio of Thursday night is making a
terrible stir in the papers, appealing to the public, and writing
long letters about his having merely studied the part to
accommodate me. "Hard case--unjust partiality--superior influence,"
etc., etc.--in short, an attempt at a little cabal, the effect of
which is that he has obtained leave to appear again to-morrow night
in Jaffier to my Belvidera. The poor man is under a strong mental
delusion, he cannot act in the least; however, we shall see what he
will do with "Venice Preserved." ...

Yesterday evening we dined with some English people who are staying
in this hotel, and met Dr. Wainwright, rector of the most
"fashionable" church in New York; a very agreeable, good, and
clever man, who expressed great delight at having an opportunity of
meeting us in private, as his congregation are so strait-laced that
he can neither call upon us nor invite us to his house, much less
set his foot in the theater. The probable consequence of any of
these enormities, it seems, would be deserted pews next Sunday, and
perhaps eventually the forced resig