I think that our friend Grerrit Smith is such a medium. We have tried to convert him many years ago from his delusion, and after previous preparations which we have made in his house, it was, I think, on the 18th of February, 1845, (which is the anniversary of great events in our mission,) that I met with him in a convention of antislavery ministers and other abolitionists, which was held in Syracuse, N.Y. He was chairman. A number of resolutions for operations in the antislavery movements had been read and adopted. Then I arose and assured the audience, that if my document which I had prepared for that occasion, would be read, they could comprehend that those resolutions would be for no use, and that better means have been providentially prepared for the redemption of slaves by co-operation of slaveholders themselves, if anti-slavery champions would study to know those means and make use of them. The chairman Gerrit Smith asked the audience, whether my document should be read. The majority answered "Yes." He asked the votes of those who would be against its reading. Some voices were heard, that it should not be read. And the chairman Smith said: "Smolnikar, you have lost the floor." He was right, if the Convention was ruled by those who had made the resolutions and by their colleagues. And I said, that if they would not receive light, they should continue in darkness, and I left directly. At length rapping spirits broke out and had great influence in his house, because he shut his eyes, when light has been offered to him from the spirit of truth by our mediumships. I tried in different times to move our friend Gerrit Smith to study our message and the credentials of our mission. But deluding and destroying spirits drew him in other directions. At length A.D. 1854 I tried particularly to move the Congress of the United States to appoint a Convention in which I promised to exhibit the means to deliver this country from monarchial influence and to establish the promised universal Republic of Truth, Justice and Peace on earth, and the credentials of our mission, and I applied to a number of congressmen in both Houses to bring the subject before their respective bodies. At length, when all others had neglected to fulfil this their highest duty, I applied to Hon. Gerrit Smith, who was at that time in the House of Representatives.