a full grown abolitionist black as a charcoal, skounderly in aspects, after him what decent white man would be present? well, he is a white man, of course, and he is disgusted by the northern abolitionists as well as he should be. he made a speech in february in brooklyn peeking directly to the people of the south explaining his position which was basically yes, you were want to be left alone, the idea of being slavery withers and dies eventually. that was his public position. i said that can never look upon my face again. on a mission to the south, disguises himself. he makes it to mobile, new orleans, and arrives in charleston. he is immediately slipped out. he gets his (inaudible) and yeah, charleston is on the watch. he was anti-slavery man who did coded messages. his brother was working on a bank in springfield. even the paranoid have enemies. he writes to a friend in massachusetts, ouring countrymen in south carolina, are distempered to a degree that makes them to a calm and partial observer objects of pity and they believe anything that flatters their delusion or their vanity.