Communications

My Dkar Fiuend anp Bro. Fo3ter: Afler a long absence Trom our Slaie, the kind hand of Providenca has safely brought me back to do baltle in freedom cause. More than eight month have )nssed away since my voice ñas beert heard in Michigan. ITut wherever I have traveleii, either by land or water, 1 have nol forgotlen my brethren in bonds; I liave preached a string ol' Abolitionisrrr more tlian ihree housand miles in lengthj l have lost no time in luboring to elévate .1 downtrodden people, and to advanca the cause of humaiiity. I was gone much longer than I expected to be when l started, but I became so much interesled wilh the people of New England, every where I traveled, the hospitalities with which I was received, the invítations an J 'uducements which were held out to me to stay, were alinost overwhelming. I could hardly believeso.i.etimes that I was [Ienry Bibb, the runaway slave. But my object in going to New England, was not 0 find a residence. I had several objects in going:- Ist. FOR THE PI RPOSE OF GAfNING i.vf'OR.MATiON, and educatingmyself, by seeïng what slavery had not dared to ullow me to read of. 2. 1 wanted to make myself ncquainted wilh the noble hearted sons and daughters of New England by eeing them face to face. 3. I wanted to represented the true condition of 3,000,000 of American Slaves, by telling the story of my own wrongs. 4, 1 wantted (o go because Slaveholders nre in (he habit of going there and false.'y representing us, and because they dislike very much to be exposed by n fugitive Slave before the public. Thoe are some of my reasons for going to New England. - And, sir, I arn happy to say, that na much ns [ had heard about New Englend with regard to her Antislavery chnracter, that the half Ind not been tol '. Severnl times during my travel there, I Imve met with Slaveholders wliö could Hol besr to henr the truth told of them in public meetings, and they have iried to delend Uiemüelves, but they were soon put down by the overwhelming potver of public opinión. The man whoundertakes there to defend the system eilher in Church or State, soon Iosö the confidence and support ofall good men. I know that our cause has a strong and an abiding holJ upon the New Ehgland heart. I haya had the pleasure of traveling through Yermont, New Hampshire, R. Island, Connecticut, and Massiichusetts. I have heard some of the able.st advócales of thi subject in both Church and State, which has' inspired me wilh new ze.al. I liave board ihe omnipotent voice of Liberttt thundering llnough the Green Mountain hill tops and Values, and vibrating back into the dark corners of American Slavei y. And I have had the plensure of seeing Bunker's Hil!, where the bones of oür Revolutionary fathers are lying, who feil gloriousíy iii defence of our Liberty. I hnve had the privilege of addressing thousands of the ciiizens of Bos ton, in Trcmont Temple, and Faneuil Hall, the old dradle of Liberty, and where 1 caught the pure spirit of pairiotism uff tho altaron which it first wds feit and seen to glow in "a day when ittried mens souls," when a three penny taxaMon was not to be allowed on Téa, and when Liberty was the wntch word frorti Georgia to Maine. Truly my short visit to New England hns been a great source f informalion to me asan illiterate men. - It has open( d to my mind the history of (he present, the future, and the pnst. - Almost in imagination I have ived to see the bat tles of the revolutionary war fought which was long before 1 wa bo.-n or even ihought of. Mr. Lewis Clark, of Botton. 1 hnd the pleasui'e a few diys since of tnking by the hand, Mr. Clark. He is a self emancipnted Slave and is as white a most white people ; he is nlso the first fugitive n this country that opened his mouth to exposé the evils of Amer can Slavery in public. I hope he may be prevniled upon to snend some time in .Michigan before he returns to to the East. He is an intelligent and nteresting speaker, has trnveled all over New Knglnnd, and is much esteemed by his fellow citizens. He s now in Detroit visiting h's brother. Mny we vet see ottr Country lid of thë fuul.statn prejudice and Slavery for which let us continue to labor nnd pr.-iv. Yours atleet i onntely,