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the subject of deep-rooted prejudice, and the slave of opinion ; 

 but in what portion of the globe, inhabited by white people, is 

 not this the case ? 



There are many pretended philanthropists in Britain, who 

 feel keenly for the sufferings of the coloured people in distant 

 countries, and do not sympathize with the unfortunate beings 

 of their own complexion at home, who proclaim to the world 

 the sinfulness of slavery, and yet strain every nerve to retain 

 the unjust fetters of their own countrymen, and who lament 

 the negro being an object of prejudice in the United States, 

 while they regard most of the white people around them with 

 the same feeling. In America, the inhabitants of the South 

 ern States talk of the tyranny of Europe and the degraded 

 population of Ireland, while the sound of the lash, and the 

 moanings of their own suffering slaves, ring in their ears ; 

 and in Britain, the cruelty of the American slaveholder, and 

 the injuries of his oppressed slave, are descanted on by people 

 who actively engage in withholding just rights from the lower 

 orders of their own countrymen, and remain insensible to their 

 base condition. Such is the shortsightedness and inconsist 

 ency of man over the world. At a distance, he sees oppression 

 in others, and sympathizes with its victim, while insensible to 

 his own tyranny and its effects at home. Almost all the evils 

 which afflict humanity, originate from the passions of man. 

 Slavery in the United States, and the degradation of the Irish 

 peasantry, sprung from the same source the aristocratic feel 

 ing of the people of England. 



On the packet reaching Shenectady, a stage-coach was on 

 the banks of the canal waiting our arrival, into which I step 

 ped, and soon afterwards found myself in Albany. My first 

 proceeding was to obtain a new hat, and after dinner I waited 

 on Mr Buel. 



From some paragraphs I had read in newspapers while] in 

 Ohio, I learned an agricultural exhibition was to have taken 

 place about this time at Albany, at which I was anxious 

 to be present. It had, however, been held two days be 

 fore my arrival, and I learned from Mr Buel it had not 

 altogether come up to his expectation. A certain time must 

 elapse before the public acquire a taste for such things, and I 



