END OF VOLUME I.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote A:  Since my return to the United States I have been informed that the Freewill Baptist denomination have adopted the same rigid principle of slavery exclusion that characterizes the Scotch Seceders and the Quakers.  Let this be known to their honor.]

[Footnote B:  This venerated, and erudite jurist, the friend and biographer of the celebrated Lord Jeffrey, has recently died.]

[Footnote C:  This, alas! is no longer true.  By the recent passage of the infamous Nebraska bill, this whole region, with the exception of two states already organized, is laid open to slavery.  This faithless measure was nobly resisted by a large and able minority in Congress—­honor to them.]

[Footnote D:  This most learned and amiable judge recently died, while in the very act of charging a jury.]

[Footnote E:  This resolution, drawn and offered, I think, by my hospitable friend, Mr. Binney, I have mislaid, and cannot find it.  It was, however, in character and spirit, just what Mr. James here declares it to be.]

[Footnote F:  I have been told since my return, that there are some slaveholding Congregational churches in the south; but they have no connection with our New England churches, and certainly are not generally known as Congregationalists distinct from the Presbyterians.]

[Footnote G:  This has always been supposed and claimed in the United States.  Now the time has come to test its truth.  If there is this antislavery feeling in nine tenths of the people, the impudent iniquity of the Nebraska bill will call it forth.]

[Footnote H:  Eight years ago I conscientiously approved and zealously defended this course of the American Board.  Subsequent events have satisfied me, that, in the present circumstances of our country, making concessions to slaveholders, however slightly, and with whatever motives, even if not wrong in principle, is productive of no good.  It does but strengthen slavery, and makes its demands still more exorbitant, and neutralizes the power of gospel truth.]

[Footnote I:  This state of things is fast changing.  Church members at the south now defend slavery as right.  This is a new thing.]

[Footnote J:  When your chimney has smoked as long as ours, it will, may be, need sweeping too.]

[Footnote K:  Had I known all about New York and Boston which recent examinations have developed, I should have answered very differently.  The fact is, that we in America can no longer congratulate ourselves on not having a degraded and miserable class in our cities, and it will be seen to be necessary for us to arouse to the very same efforts which, have been so successfully making in England.]

[Footnote L:  This idea is beautifully wrought out by Mrs. Jamieson in her Characteristics of the Women of Shakspeare, to which, the author is indebted for the suggestion.]