Owing to the great publicity which the newspapers had given to our affairs and the consequent excitement thereon, we found it necessary to use the utmost caution, such as walking apart in the streets, and travelling in the trains as strangers to each other.  It would have been fool-hardy to have provoked another mob.

We remained in Boston ten days, quietly visiting among our friends, and then set sail for England.  Wishing to get out of the country without farther ado, we were compelled to submit to many sacrifices, pecuniary and otherwise, of which it is not necessary to speak.  In England and Ireland, including a short trip to Scotland, we have been ever since, and have constantly received that generous and friendly consideration which, from the reputation of Great Britain and Ireland, we had been led to expect; and for which we are grateful.

To go back for a single moment to New York Central College.  On receiving the appointment to the professorial chair, the pro-slavery newspaper press of the country opened a regular assault.  The “Washington Union” thus wrote: 

“What a pity that college could not have found white men in all America to fill its professors’ chairs.  What a burning shame that the trustees should have been mean enough to rob Mr. L——­ of his law student, and the Boston bar of its ebony ornament.”  I was never at the Boston bar, and therefore could not have been its ebony ornament.  The imagination of the editors supplied them with the fact, and that answered their purpose as well.

A reverend doctor of divinity writing in a Cincinnati newspaper, wondered “how a man of sense could enter that amalgamation college.  If this professor would go to Liberia and display his eloquence at the bar there; or, if he has any of the grace of God in his heart, enter the pulpit, he would then be doing a becoming work.”

From Augusta, Georgia (Slave State), I received the following document, signed by several parties, and containing the picture of a man hanging by the neck, under which was written, “Here hangs the Professor of Greek!”

“Augusta, Geo. Nov. 1850.

“Sir,—­We perceive you have been appointed Professor of Greek in New York Central College.  Very well.  We also perceive that you have occasionally lectured in the North on the ’Probable Destiny of the African Race.’  Now, Sir, if you will only have the kindness to come to Augusta, and visit our hemp yard, you may be sure that your destiny will not be probable, but certain.

“Signed,

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Of course I did not go to Augusta, Georgia.