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fired into an enemy's ranks, I will do it my-
self. I speak thus, because I see the animus
of all this kind of attack upon colored men,
by professed friends of the rights of the
race. We become obnoxious to some of our
professed friends, because we do not gee and
haw, and come into and out of the traces at
their bidding. I have yet to learn that a
mere profession of abolitionism gives any
white man a right to take me by the coat
button and lead me whithersoever he will.—
I know not who was the editor of the Freeman,
at the time the paragraph appeared in
its columns, nor do I care to know. Who
ever he may be, he shared his animus, and
besides, he lost a part of his thunder by a
mistake in a matter of fact—as a minister, I
have never been a member of any Presby-
tery with Dr. Cox.

These are my views, freely stated, and I
intend to adhere to them. I wielded a pen
in defence of my own race, before the Penn-
sylvania Freeman was known. I am its se-
nior; I shall, therefore, leave the Freeman
to its suppositions, and think for myself, and
to do battle for my race, as heretofore.

J. W. C. PENNINGTON.