in the battles that achieved the independence of the colonies from the mother country, in the war of the Revolution.  Mr. Remond has felt deeply, (probably more so than any other coloured man), the odious prejudice against colour.  On this point he is sensitive to a fault.  If any one will sit for an hour and hear a lecture from him on this subject, if he is not converted, he will at least become convinced, that the boiling cauldron of anti-slavery discussion has never thrown upon its surface a more fiery spirit than Charles Lennox Remond.

There are some men who neither speak nor write, but whose lives place them in the foremost ranks in the cause which they espouse.  One of these is Francis Jackson.  He was one of the earliest to give countenance and support to the anti-slavery movement.  In the year 1835, when a mob of more than 5000 merchants and others, in Boston, broke up an anti-slavery meeting of females, at which William Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson were to deliver addresses, and when the Society had no room in which to hold its meetings (having been driven from their own room by the mob), Francis Jackson, with a moral courage scarcely ever equalled, came forward and offered his private dwelling to the ladies, to hold their meeting in.  The following interesting passage occurs in a letter from him to the Secretary of the Society a short time after, on receiving a vote of thanks from its members:—­

“If a large majority of this community choose to turn a deaf ear to the wrongs which are inflicted upon their countrymen in other portions of the land—­if they are content to turn away from the sight of oppression, and ’pass by on the other side’—­so it must be.

“But when they undertake in any way to impair or annul my right to speak, write, and publish upon any subject, and more especially upon enormities, which are the common concern of every lover of his country and his kind—­so it must not be—­so it shall not be, if I for one can prevent it.  Upon this great right let us hold on at all hazards.  And should we, in its exercise, be driven from public halls to private dwellings, one house at least shall be consecrated to its preservation.  And if, in defence of this sacred privilege, which man did not give me, and shall not (if I can help it) take from me, this roof and these walls shall be levelled to the earth, let them fall if they must; they cannot crumble in a better cause.  They will appear of very little value to me after their owner shall have been whipt into silence.”

There are among the contributors to the Anti-Slavery cause, a few who give with a liberality which has never been surpassed by the donors to any benevolent association in the world, according to their means—­the chief of these is Francis Jackson.