ding it lack the moral
stamina necessary to its removal. It is a system of such gigantic evil,
so strong, so overwhelming in its power, that no one nation is equal to
its removal. It requires the humanity of Christianity, the morality of
the world to remove it. Hence, I call upon the people of Britain to
look at this matter, and to exert the influence I am about to show they
possess, for the removal of slavery from America. I can appeal to them,
as strongly by their regard for the slaveholder as for the slave, to
labor in this cause. I am here, because you have an influence on America
that no other nation can have. You have been drawn together by the power
of steam to a marvelous extent; the distance between London and
Boston is now reduced to some twelve or fourteen days, so that the
denunciations against slavery, uttered in London this week, may be heard
in a fortnight in the streets of Boston, and reverberating amidst the
hills of Massachusetts. There is nothing said here against slavery that
will not be recorded in the United States. I am here, also, because the
slaveholders do not want me to be here; they would rather that I were
not here. I have adopted a maxim laid down by Napoleon, never to occupy
ground which the enemy would like me to occupy. The slaveholders would
much rather have me, if I will denounce slavery, denounce it in the
northern states, where their friends and supporters are, who will stand
by and mob me for denouncing it. They feel something as the man felt,
when he uttered his prayer, in which he made out a most horrible case
for himself, and one of his neighbors touched him and said, "My
friend, I always had the opinion of you that you have now expressed for
yourself--that you are a very great sinner." Coming from himself, it
was all very well, but coming from a stranger it was rather cutting. The
slaveholders felt that when slavery was denounced among themselves, it
was not so bad; but let one of the slaves get loose, let him summon
the people of Britain, and make known to them the conduct of the
slaveholders toward their slaves, and it cuts them to the quick, and
produces a sensation such as would be produced by nothing else. The
power I exert now is something like the power that is exerted by the man
at the end of the lever; my influence now is just in proportion to the
distance that I am from the United States. My exposure of slavery abroad
will tell more upon the hearts and consciences of sla