know, who are working for redemption of slaves.  A committee of five colored men was appointed; but at our first meeting all members of the committee were not present, and those who came to the first meeting were so distracted with other business, that they did not pay attention to what has been read the first time, and the others had their excuses to come again, except a Mulatto from West India who would have persevered, if others had done the same.  But he alone could do nothing, because he was not a long time in Philadelphia and had not much influence there.

I have given here one case of my experience, instead of hundreds of cases, how dreadfully the colored people are duped and deceived by the heads of antislavery armies, while these heads or popes appear to have great zeal for deliverance of slaves, although they are the cause, that some of them are killed, and those who are brought to Canada, become more miserable slaves than they have been before, because they are drilled in weapons to kill and be killed, while our master offers by our instrumentality to the anti-slavery champions the means to deliver white and black slaves from all forms of oppression[P] and slavery.  But there are many, under the specious name of the antislavery cause, agents of monarchs and traitors of the true Republican or true anti-slavery cause.  And those who are not directly bribed by monarchial agents for the conversion of this country into monarchies, are mediums or instruments of deluding and destroying spirits, by whom they are so blinded that they, really believe, that they are working “for deliverance of the poor slave,” while they are assisting monarchs, to enslave the whole country.

I think that our friend Grerrit Smith is such a medium.  We have tried to convert him many years ago from his delusion, and after previous preparations which we have made in his house, it was, I think, on the 18th of February, 1845, (which is the anniversary of great events in our mission,) that I met with him in a convention of antislavery ministers and other abolitionists, which was held in Syracuse, N.Y.  He was chairman.  A number of resolutions for operations in the antislavery movements had been read and adopted.  Then I arose and assured the audience, that if my document which I had prepared for that occasion, would be read, they could comprehend that those resolutions would be for no use, and that better means have been providentially prepared for the redemption of slaves by co-operation of slaveholders themselves, if anti-slavery champions would study to know those means and make use of them.  The chairman Gerrit Smith asked the audience, whether my document should be read.  The majority answered “Yes.”  He asked the votes of those who would be against its reading.  Some voices were heard, that it should not be read.  And the chairman Smith said:  “Smolnikar, you have lost the floor.”  He was right, if the Convention was ruled by those who had made the resolutions and