rill, Pomeroy, H. Wilson, Patterson, and also Abraham Ivincoln and U. S. Grant. She received communications from Gerritt Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, Vice-President Colfax, Theodore Tilton and a host of other distinguished white men and women. She received calls from hundreds of the best Christian people of the North, and has been entertained in many of the aristocratic homes of the whites in this country. She sought to have the United States government set apart certain lands for the homes of ex-slaves. She was well prepared to do this work, having spent much time in the anti-slavery cause. A Northern paper said of her:
That old colored woman was so earnest, so fearless and untiring a laborer for her race during the long contest between freedom and slavery that she is known and loved by thousands in every State in the Union. Very black and without much education, she has remarkable faith in God, wonderfully clear perception of moral right and wrong, the most devoted love for the poor and needy, and the most untiring determination to carry forward plans for the amelioration of the condition of her race.
A Detroit paper said of her, among other things:
Those who have before heard her lectures will doubtless remember well the strong and yet well-modulated voice and the characteristic expressions in which she delivers her addresses, as well as the pith and point of her spicy sentences. Sojourner proposes to solicit government aid, in the way of having some portion of the as yet unoccupied lands of the West donated for the purpose as set forth in the petition first mentioned, and there to have suitable buildings erected and schools established, where the now dependent thousands of colored people may go, and not only attain an independence for themselves, but become educated and respectable citizens.
