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Rh and examined the present, pronounced it beautiful, thanked me kindly, but said: 'You must not give me the praise—it belongs to God.'"

"Sojourner Truth," the slave preacher whom Mrs. Stowe has described as embodying all the elements of an African prophetess or sibyl, when over eighty years old, left her home, at Battlecreek, Michigan, with the unalterable purpose of seeing the Emancipator of her race before her death. Provided for throughout her journey, she reached Washington the last of October, 1864, and subsequently, at her dictation, the following account of her interview with Mr. Lincoln was written out by a friend:—

"It was about eight o'clock,, when I called on the President. Upon entering his reception-room we found about a dozen persons in waiting, among them two colored women.  I had quite a pleasant time waiting until he was disengaged, and enjoyed his conversation with others; he showed as much kindness and consideration to the colored persons as to the whites,—if there was any difference, more.  One case was that of a colored woman, who was sick and likely to be turned out of her house on account of her inability to pay her rent.  The President listened to her with much attention, and spoke to her with kindness and tenderness.  He said he had