He describes the punishment inflicted on an abolitionist in Tennessee, commenting that there was nothing more oppressive than a lawless democracy, and reports the killing of a doctor of divinity [Lovejoy] and another in a fracas at Alton when defending an anti-slavery printing press from a mob. He also describes the peril of the Friends in Lower Canada due to the rebellion, the way in which lynch-law worked in Mississippi, and his own confidence that, despite the feeling against abolitionists, he would be able to continue his ministry in America without danger. (Copy.)