Angelina adds that she shall be obliged to go to Philadelphia for a week or so, to dispose of her personal effects, and asks Jane to receive her as a boarder, as she did not think it would be right to impose herself upon either her sister, Mrs. Frost, or Catherine, on account of their disapproval of anti-slavery measures.

“I never felt before,” she says, “as if I had no home.  It seems as if the Lord had completely broken up my rest and driven me out to labor for the poor slave.  It is His work—­I blame no one.”

A few weeks later, the sisters were again in New York, the guests of that staunch abolitionist, Dr. Cox, and his good wife, Abby, as earnest a worker in the cause as her husband.  An anti-slavery convention had been called for the first week in the month of November, and met soon after their arrival.  It was at this convention that Angelina first saw and listened to Theodore D. Weld.  Writing to her friend Jane, she says:—­

“The meetings are increasingly interesting, and to-day (11th) we enjoyed a moral and intellectual feast in a most noble speech from T.D.  Weld, of more than two hours, on the question, ‘What is slavery?’ I never heard so grand and beautiful an exposition of the dignity and nobility of man in my life.”

She goes on to give a synopsis of the entire speech, and by her frequent enthusiastic comments reveals how much it and the speaker impressed her.  She continues:—­

“After the meeting was over, W.L.  Garrison introduced Weld to us.  He greeted me with the appellation of ‘my dear sister,’ and I felt as though he was a brother indeed in the holy cause of suffering humanity; a man raised up by God and wonderfully qualified to plead the cause of the oppressed.  Perhaps now thou wilt want to know how this lion of the tribe of abolition looks.  Well, at first sight, there was nothing remarkable to me in his appearance, and I wondered whether he was really as great as I had heard.  But as soon as his countenance became animated by speaking, I found it was one which portrayed the noblest qualities of the heart and head beaming with intelligence, benevolence, and frankness.”

On the last page of her letter she says:  “It is truly comforting to me to find that sister is so much pleased with the Convention, that she acknowledges the spirit of brotherly love and condescension manifest there, and that earnest desire after truth which characterizes the addresses.  We have been introduced to a number of abolitionists, Thurston, Phelps, Green, the Burleighs, Wright, Pritchard, Thome, etc., and Amos Dresser, as lovely a specimen of the meekness and lowliness of the great Master as I ever saw.  His countenance betrayeth that he has been with Jesus, and it was truly affecting to hear him on Sixth Day give an account of the Nashville outrage to a very large colored school.[5]

“The F.A.S.  Society is to have its first public meeting this week, at which we hope to hear Weld, but fear he will not have time, as he is not even able to go home to meals, and told me he had sat up until two o’clock every night since he came to New York.  As to myself, I feel I have nothing to do but to attend the Convention at present.  I am very comfortable, feeling in my right place, and sister seems to feel so too, though neither of us sees much ahead.”