mission, she has come in contact with all classes—­the original slaveholders and the Freedmen, before and since the Fifteenth Amendment bill was enacted.  Excepting two of the Southern States (Texas and Arkansas), she has traveled largely over all the others, and in no instance has she permitted herself, through fear, to disappoint an audience, when engagements had been made for her to speak, although frequently admonished that it would be dangerous to venture in so doing.

We first quote from a letter dated Darlington, S.C., May 13, 1867: 

“You will see by this that I am in the sunny South....  I here read and see human nature under new lights and phases.  I meet with a people eager to hear, ready to listen, as if they felt that the slumber of the ages had been broken, and that they were to sleep no more....  I am glad that the colored man gets his freedom and suffrage together; that he is not forced to go through the same condition of things here, that has inclined him so much to apathy, isolation, and indifference, in the North.  You, perhaps, wonder why I have been so slow in writing to you, but if you knew how busy I am, just working up to or past the limit of my strength.  Traveling, conversing, addressing day and Sunday-schools (picking up scraps of information, takes up a large portion of my time), besides what I give to reading.  For my audiences I have both white and colored.  On the cars, some find out that I am a lecturer, and then, again, I am drawn into conversation.  ‘What are you lecturing about?’ the question comes up, and if I say, among other topics politics, then I may look for an onset.  There is a sensitiveness on this subject, a dread, it may be, that some one will ’put the devil in the nigger’s head,’ or exert some influence inimical to them; still, I get along somewhat pleasantly.  Last week I had a small congregation of listeners in the cars, where I sat.  I got in conversation with a former slave dealer, and we had rather an exciting time.  I was traveling alone, but it is not worth while to show any signs of fear. * * Last Saturday I spoke in Sumter; a number of white persons were present, and I had been invited to speak there by the Mayor and editor of the paper.  There had been some violence in the district, and some of my friends did not wish me to go, but I had promised, and, of course, I went. * * * I am in Darlington, and spoke yesterday, but my congregation was so large, that I stood near the door of the church, so that I might be heard both inside and out, for a large portion, perhaps nearly half my congregation were on the outside; and this, in Darlington, where, about two years ago, a girl was hung for making a childish and indiscreet speech.  Victory was perched on our banners.  Our army had been through, and this poor, ill-fated girl, almost a child in years, about seventeen years of age, rejoiced over the event, and said that she was going to marry a Yankee and set up housekeeping.  She was