had reported to the Court, that the mob, if mob it might be
called, was composed of orderly, respectable citizens; and of,
course, orderly, respectable citizens could not be a mob. After
this I should not be surprised to hear it doubted whether there
ever was such a building, or if there was, whether it was ever
destroyed; but unluckily the ruined walls are still standing,
and if I had my way, _there they should stand_, until slavery
shall be abolished, which it will be, soon after your East India
possessions can grow cotton for six cents per lb. by free
labor."


To resume the narrative: I paid a visit to the widow of Joseph
Lancaster, who, with her three children by a former husband, are living
in great obscurity in the suburbs of this city.

I returned to New York on the 10th, for the purpose of being in the city
at the time when the religious and benevolent anniversaries are held,
and of meeting parties who attend them. Here I had the pleasure of
meeting with several warm-hearted abolitionists from distant parts of
the country. The first meeting I attended was the anniversary of the
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which, though held at a
distance from the centre of the city, in consequence of the
pre-engagement of the New York Tabernacle, was well attended, and I
believe gave general satisfaction. I was present also at two other of
its meetings. I attended several adjourned sittings of a convention
called for the purpose of organizing a political "Liberty party," on the
grand principle of the abolition of slavery. The chief business in hand
was to nominate a President and Vice President of the United States, for
the next election, and the choice fell upon my friend James G. Birney,