and yet they hold the entire power over the nation.  That is owing to their unbroken unity on that one matter, however much, and however fiercely, they may contend among themselves on others.  As soon as the subject of slavery comes up, they are of one heart, of one voice, and of one mind, while their opponents unhappily differ, and assail each other when they ought to be assailing the great enemy alone.  Why can they not work together, so far as they are agreed, and let those points on which they disagree be waived for the time?  In the midst of the battle let them sink their differences, and settle them after the victory is won.  I was happy to find at the great meeting of the Peace Society that that course has been adopted.  They are not all of one mind on the details of the question, but they are of one mind on the great principle of diffusing peace doctrines among the great nations of Europe.  I therefore say, let all the friends of the slave work together until the great work of his emancipation is accomplished, and then they will have time to discuss their differences, though I believe by that time they will all think alike.  I thank you sincerely for the kindness you have expressed towards my country, and for the philanthropy you have manifested, and I hope all has been done in such a Christian spirit that every Christian feeling on the other side of the Atlantic will be compelled to respond to it.”

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CONCLUDING NOTE.

Since the preceding addresses were delivered, the aspect of things among us has been greatly changed.  It is just as was predicted by the sagacious Lord Cockburn, at the meeting in Edinburgh, (see page xxvi.) The spirit of slavery, stimulated to madness by the indignation of the civilized world, in its frenzy bids defiance to God and man, and is determined to make itself respected by enlisting into its service the entire wealth, and power, and political influence of this great nation.  Its encroachments are becoming so enormous, and its progress so rapid, that it is now a conflict for the freedom of the citizens rather than for the emancipation of the slaves.  The reckless faithlessness and impudent falsehood of our national proslavery legislation, the present season, has scarcely a parallel in history, black as history is with all kinds of perfidy.  If the men who mean to be free do not now arise in their strength and shake off the incubus which is strangling and crushing them, they deserve to be slaves, and they will be.

C.E.S.

SUNNY MEMORIES

OF

FOREIGN LANDS.

LETTER I.

Liverpool, April 11, 1853.

MY DEAR CHILDREN:—­

You wish, first of all, to hear of the voyage.  Let me assure you, my dears, in the very commencement of the matter, that going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.