ritish
Anti-Slavery public, in supposing that a sufficient number of
individuals could be found prepared to make a slight sacrifice
for humanity's sake, and to keep the oppressed continually in
mind by a little untiring pains-taking. We hardly supposed that
the most strenuous efforts in this direction would be enough to
affect the British market; but we did believe, and believe
still, that not only is there a consistency in a preference for
free produce, but that this preference is encouraging to the
free laborer, and that humanly speaking nothing is more
calculated to nerve his hand and heart for vigorous effort. The
principle of abstinence from slave produce may be smiled at, but
we are quite sure it is an honest one, and, as a good old
proverb observes, "It takes a great many bushels full of earth
to bury a truth."

But while this self-denying protest has been going on in a few
limited circles, how great is the advance that free labor has
been making within the last two years! Who is to say whether
some of those quiet testimonies may not have contributed to
erect that mighty machinery that is now adding to its wheels and
springs from day to day, and which bids fair at no distant
period to supersede slave labor and its long train of sorrow and
oppression?

Earnest lectures have just been delivered in Newcastle by our
colored friend, Dr. M.R. Delany, lately engaged in a tour of
observation in West Africa, where he longs to establish a
nourishing colony of his people, whose express object shall be
to put down the abominable Slave-trade and to cultivate free
cotton and other tropical produce. We wish this brave man every
encouragement in his noble enterprise. He has secured the
confidence of "The African Aid Society," in London, one of whose
earliest measures has been to assist him with funds. The present
Secretary of the society is Frederick W. Fitzgerald, 7 Adam
Street, Strand, London.

And who need speak of the Zambesi and Dr. Livingston, or of
Central or Eastern Africa; of India, or Australia, or of the
prolific West India Islands?

As we prepare this little sheet, a kind letter has come in from
Stephen Bourne, for many years a stipendiary magistrate in
Jamaica, and now the ardent promoter of a cotton-growing company
of that island. He says to us, when