which has been given.  Their main reliance is on the system of Mosaic servitude, wholly unlike though it was to the American system of slavery.  As to what this American system of slavery is, the best documents for enlightening the minds of British Christians are the commercial newspapers of the slaveholding states.  There you see slavery as it is, and certainly without any exaggeration.  Read the advertisements for the sale of slaves and for the apprehension of fugitives, the descriptions of the persons of slaves, of dogs for hunting slaves, &c., and you see how the whole matter as viewed by the southern mind.  Say what they will about it, practically they generally regard the separation of families no more than the separation of cattle, and the slaves as so much property, and nothing else.  Their own papers show that the pictures of the internal slave trade given in Uncle Tom, so far from being overdrawn, fall even below the truth.  Go on, then, in forming and expressing your views on this subject.  In laboring for the overthrow of American slavery you are pursuing a course of Christian duty as legitimate as in laboring to suppress the suttees of India, the cannibalism of the Fejee Islands, and other barbarities of heathenism, of which human slavery is but a relic.  These evils can be finally removed by the benign influence of the love of Christ, and no other power is competent to the work.”

PUBLIC MEETING IN LIVERPOOL—­APRIL 13.

The Chairman, (A.  Hodgson, Esq.,) in opening the proceedings, thus addressed Mrs. Beecher Stowe:  “The modesty of our English ladies, which, like your own, shrinks instinctively from unnecessary publicity, has devolved on me, as one of the trustees of the Liverpool Association, the gratifying office of tendering to you, at then request, a slight testimonial of their gratitude and respect.  We had hoped almost to the last moment that Mrs. Cropper would have represented, on this day, the ladies with whom she has cooperated, and among whom she has taken a distinguished lead in the great work which you had the honor and the happiness to originate.  But she has felt with you that the path most grateful and most congenial to female exertion, even in its widest and most elevated range, is still a retired and a shady path; and you have taught us that the voice which most effectually kindles enthusiasm in millions is the still small voice which comes forth from the sanctuary of a woman’s breast, and from the retirement of a woman’s closet—­the simple but unequivocal expression of her unfaltering faith, and the evidence of her generous and unshrinking self-devotion.  In the same spirit, and as deeply impressed with the retired character of female exertion, the ladies who have so warmly greeted your arrival in this country have still felt it entirely consistent with the most sensitive delicacy to make a public response to your appeal, and to hail with acclamation your thrilling protest