"Whence comes all at once, all this pretended friendly feeling: Does anyone believe the writer to be sincere? For our part, we frankly admit we have no confidence in it.
Mary Shadd
"Miss Mary Ann Shadd (now Mrs. Cary) is made the special subject of compliment, with traits of talents and literary acquirements, which places her without an equal among the colored ladies of the United States. Is this a recent discovery? Are the talents and acquired ability of Miss Shadd just beginning to develop themselves that this great keen eyed expositor of our 'awakened mental abilities' has just discovered them?"
MRD, July 12, 1856, addressing an article in which Frederick Douglass supported emigration to Canada.
