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Mr. ED1ToR-Allow me to say that be-
cause | have not written for your excellent
paper for a long time, have not forgotten you
or your readers; but the fact is it is no easy
thing for an Inherent man to write for the
press, after cold jaunt from one appointment
to another; and again, the spirit of talkative
ness is so prevalent in most of the N. E. fam
lilies, it would require him right hand man
to answer all the questions propounded to him;
but there is one consolation in it, it is not the
spirit of gossip, but evidently an anxious de-
sire to be informed on the condition of man.
kind.


After our state convention at Portland, Sept
9th, posted off down into the interior OF the
state, and my first stop was at Topsham, on
the banks of the river Andrascoggin Here
found kind and generous people, they are
little mechanical, agricultural, commercial
and manufacturing but there are not enough of
those slavery capitalists to control the com
munity in the power of that worse of all spi-
rits, so prevalent at the North, aristocracy; so
as matter of course, the milk of human
kindness can have delightful flow from heart
to heart, and as might be expected the poor
slave at the South, and our nominally free CO
lored people at the North, are fully remem-
bered not in the spirit of be We warmed, and
be We clothed; but in the spirit of that sympa-
thy that whatever their hands find to do, do it
with all their might; we have seen too much
of that spurious abolitionism in the land.-
Priest or hereto, alike pass on the other side,
but here found the true genuine split of it,
which, like the good Samaritan, come and
lift the sufferer up, and pour the oil of conso
lation into the wounded heart, and bring him
to an inn, and take care of him. The Rev.
Mr.. Folsom of this place, with his good lady,
and the church are abolitionists without an if or
a but, that tells the heart if all our N. r. min
listers, and churches would be abolitionist and
preach and pray on The subject, and put the
spirit of the Lord God on them, the mist of
pro-slayery would roll off from the community
like the dew of a summer morn, before the great
orb of day; for like priest, like people, and
can but feel that the ministry and churches
are as general thing too guilty, for the spell