of the American army becomes a covert for the slave, and beneath the American Eagle he grasps the key of knowledge and is lifted to a higher destiny.”

This letter we had intended should complete the sketch of Mrs. Harper’s Anti-Slavery labors; but in turning to another epistle dated Boston, April 19th, on the Assassination of the President, we feel that a part of it is too interesting to omit: 

“Sorrow treads on the footsteps of the nation’s joy.  A few days since the telegraph thrilled and throbbed with a nation’s joy.  To-day a nation sits down beneath the shadow of its mournful grief.  Oh, what a terrible lesson does this event read to us!  A few years since slavery tortured, burned, hung and outraged us, and the nation passed by and said, they had nothing to do with slavery where it was, slavery would have something to do with them where they were.  Oh, how fearfully the judgments of Ichabod have pressed upon the nation’s life!  Well, it may be in the providence of God this blow was needed to intensify the nation’s hatred of slavery, to show the utter fallacy of basing national reconstruction upon the votes of returned rebels, and rejecting loyal black men; making (after all the blood poured out like water, and wealth scattered like chaff) a return to the old idea that a white rebel is better or of more account in the body politic than a loyal black man....  Moses, the meekest man on earth, led the children of Israel over the Red Sea, but was not permitted to see them settled in Canaan.  Mr. Lincoln has led up through another Red Sea to the table land of triumphant victory, and God has seen fit to summon for the new era another man.  It is ours then to bow to the Chastener and let our honored and loved chieftain go.  Surely the everlasting arms that have hushed him so strangely to sleep are able to guide the nation through its untrod future; but in vain should be this fearful baptism of blood if from the dark bosom of slavery springs such terrible crimes.  Let the whole nation resolve that the whole virus shall be eliminated from its body; that in the future slavery shall only be remembered as a thing of the past that shall never have the faintest hope of a resurrection.”

Up to this point, we have spoken of Mrs. Harper as a laborer, battling for freedom under slavery and the war.  She is equally earnest in laboring for Equality before the law—­education, and a higher manhood, especially in the South, among the Freedmen.

For the best part of several years, since the war, she has traveled very extensively through the Southern States, going on the plantations and amongst the lowly, as well as to the cities and towns, addressing schools, Churches, meetings in Court Houses, Legislative Halls, &c., and, sometimes, under the most trying and hazardous circumstances; influenced in her labor of love, wholly by the noble impulses of her own heart, working her way along unsustained by any Society.  In this