Here at least was a man with a mission--that mission to carry the gospel of Christ to the uttermost parts of the earth. He knew no standard but that of duty; he heeded no command but that of his own soul. Rude, and sharp of speech he was, and only half-educated; but he was made of the stuff of heroes; and neither hunger, nor cold, nor powers, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, could daunt him in his task. After the lapse of a hundred years he looms larger, not smaller, in the history of our Southland; and as of old we seem to hear again "the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord." BENJAMIN BRAWLEY FOOTNOTES: [1] Very little has been written about Lorenzo Dow. There is an article by Emily S. Gilman in the _New England Magazine_, Vol. 20, p. 411 (June, 1899), and also one by J. H. Kennedy in the _Magazine of Western History_, Vol. 7, p. 162. The present paper is based mainly upon the following works: (1) "Biography and Miscellany," published by Lorenzo Dow, Norwich, Conn., 1834; (2) "History of Cosmopolite;" or "The Four Volumes of Lorenzo Dow's Journal concentrated in one, containing his Experience and Travels," Wheeling, 1848; (3) "The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil; as exemplified in the Life, Experience, and Travels of Lorenzo Dow," 2 vols. in one. With an Introductory Essay by the Rev. John Dowling, D.D., of New York. Cincinnati, 1858. [2] "Dealings," II, 169. [3] "Dealings," I, 178. [4] "Dealings," II, 148. [5] "Perambulations of Cosmopolite, or Travels and Labors in Europe and America," 95. [6] Ibid., 93. [7] Ibid., _passim._ [8] Biography and Miscellany, 30. [9] "A Journey from Babylon to Jerusalem or the Road to Peace and True Happiness," 71. [10] "A Journey from Babylon and Jerusalem," 71. [11] Ibid., 72. [12] "History of Cosmopolite," 544-546. THE ATTITUDE OF THE FREE NEGRO TOWARD AFRICAN COLONIZATION In the midst of the perplexities arising from various plans for the solution of the race problem one hundred years ago, the colonization movement became all things to all men. Some contended that it was a philanthropic enterprise; others considered it a scheme for getting rid of the free people of color because of the seeming menace they were to slavery. It was doubtless a combination of several ideas.[1] Furthermore, the meaning of colonization varied on the one hand according to the use the slave-holding class hoped to make of it, and on the other hand according to the intensity of the attacks directed against it by the Abolitionists and the free colored people because of the acquiescent attitude of colonizationists toward the persecution of the free blacks both in the North and South.[2]