the virtues of our fathers." In a pubhshed letter, respecting a celebration of West India emancipation, he avowed he had not taken part in it, " from shame for the honor and good name of mv country, whose government has been now, for a series of years, pursuing and maturing a counteraction of the purpose of universal emancipation, and organizing an opposite system for the maintenance and perpetuation of slavery throughout the earth." After referring to va- rious disgraceful features in the conduct of the Government and people, he added, " my friends, I have no heart to join in the festivity on the 1st of August, the British anniversary of disenthralled humanity. While all this, and mfinitely more than I could tell, but that I would spare the blushes of my country, weigh down my spirits with the uncertainty, sinking into my grave, as I am, whether she is doomed to be numbered with the first liberators or the last oppressors of the race of immortal man."
It would have been an anomaly in the history of human nature, if a public man, thus outraging almost every popular prejudice, pouring contempt upon pohtical meanness and corruption, spurning the commonly received tests of patriotism, and hurling defiance at all the dema-