The next morning I left early for Utica, where I had the pleasure of again meeting the friends I had parted from at Buffalo, with whom I paid a visit to the Oneida Institute, about two miles from Utica.  This college was the first in the United States to throw open its doors to students, irrespective of color.  It was also one of the earliest institutions to combine manual labor with instruction.  The principle is adopted partly from a motive of economy, but principally because intellectual vigor is believed to depend on bodily health, and that these can be best secured and preserved by exercise and labor, especially out of door and agricultural employments.  The labor of the students defrays a considerable part of the expense of their support, but as the severe pressure of the times has limited the means of many liberal benefactors of Oneida, the establishment, which usually comprises one hundred young men, is now limited to about one-third of the number.  Several of these are colored.  The Oberlin Institute in Ohio is on a much larger scale than this, and is on an equally liberal footing with regard to color.  I much regretted being unable, from want of time, to comply with the urgent request of my friend, Wm. Dawes and others, to visit this important and interesting establishment.  The number of students at Oberlin last year was five hundred and sixty, including those in the department for females.

I was much pleased to have the opportunity of becoming further acquainted with the President of Oneida, Beriah Green, and with his friend, Wm. Goodell, who resides in the neighborhood.  Their names will be reverenced by the abolitionists of America as long as the memory of anti-slavery efforts shall survive.  Before we left, we had an opportunity of meeting the students together, who appeared much interested with my friend John Candler’s details of the results of emancipation in Jamaica.  I was disappointed in not finding at home Alvan Stewart, one of the ablest and most zealous friends of the Anti-Slavery cause; but Beriah Green kindly accompanied me to call upon several of their abolition friends in the city.

My limited time prevented my paying a visit to Henry B. Stanton, who was residing not far from Utica, and whose acquaintance I had the pleasure of making in England.  He also will be remembered for his able assistance at the Convention, and by his eloquent addresses at public meetings in this country.  The following record of his services is made by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society:—­

“That this Committee, in taking leave of their friend and fellow-laborer in the cause of universal emancipation, Henry Brewster Stanton, Esq., record their high estimate of the valuable services rendered by him to that cause, whilst in Great Britain, by his eloquent and powerful advocacy; and, in tendering him their thanks, they express their sincere desire for his success in the great work to which he has devoted himself.”

The name of Henry B. Stanton previously occurs in conjunction with that of Theodore D. Weld, as having left Lane Seminary with many other students, rather than be silent on the abolition question:  becoming from that time a strenuous and powerful anti-slavery advocate.