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the candidates had succeeded by the superior raciness of 

 his eloquence, in collecting nearly all the people about 

 him, while the other was left comparatively alone. 

 Upon this the deserted rival took out a fiddle and 

 began to play, upon which he w r as speedily surrounded 

 in his turn, and his rival forsaken. The latter, then put 

 to his wits end, observed the bow of the fiddle to be in 

 his antagonist s left hand, and immediately pointed it 

 out to one of his own friends. &quot; You see he plays with 

 his left hand he thinks that good enough for you ask 

 him to give you a tune with his right.&quot; The cue was 

 taken. &quot; Why do you play with your left hand? You 

 think that good enough for us : play with your right 

 hand.&quot; And as no explanation could drown the cries, 

 and atone for the supposed insult, he was obliged to quit 

 the field, and leave his adversary victorious. 



At the meeting of the Abolition Society, nothing 

 struck me beyond the large number of coloured people 

 who were present in the body of the hall, and the some 

 what rigmarole, though not unclever speech, of a black 

 clergyman who was opposed to all compromise. Ex 

 treme men, like Garrison and his party, seldom have 

 justice done to them. It is true they may be imprac 

 ticable, both as regards their measures and their men ; 

 but that unmixed evil is the result of their exertions, all 

 history of opinion in every country, I think, contradicts. 

 Such ultra men are as necessary as the more moderate 

 and reasonable advocates of any growing opinion ; and 

 as an impartial person, who never happened to fall 

 in with one of the party in the course of my tour, I 

 must express my belief that the present wide diffusion of 

 anti-slavery sentiment in the United States is in no 

 small degree owing to their exertions. 



At the same time they ought not, I think, to be 

 disappointed that Englishmen and Scotchmen and 

 especially English and Scotch clergymen do not, and 



