extinction of slavery. He proceeds to Baltimore, and finds
the jail in which he was confined in 1830 demolished; visits
Washington for the first time, and is heartily received by
the President, and very courteously in the Senate Chamber.
In a controversy with Professor F. W. Newman of London,
he defends the renomination of Lincoln, whose reëlection
presently crowns the repeal by Congress of the Fugitive
Slave Law, and the abolition of slavery by Maryland.