received with universal favor. The signatures, obtained on very short
notice, are those of the most influential men in their respective
stations in the city of Boston, and include the names of the mayor of
the city, an ex-lieutenant governor of the State of Massachusetts, one
bishop, upwards of forty ministers of religion, of different
denominations, nine gentleman, upwards of one hundred and twenty
merchants, seventeen presidents of insurance companies, the post-master
of Boston, five physicians, seven members of the legal profession, and
two editors of newspapers. After my arrival in this country, I presented
this document, through the Secretary of the Admiralty, to the
authorities to whom it is addressed, but regret to state that the
request was not complied with. The memorial, and the reply of the Lords
of the Admiralty are given in the Appendix[A]

[Footnote A: .See Appendix L.]

On leaving the shores of the United States, I left the following letter
for publication:--

"_To the Friends of Immediate Emancipation in the United
States_.

"Having visited your country as an humble fellow-laborer in the
great cause in which you are engaged, and which, through trials
and difficulties a stranger can scarcely appreciate, you have so
zealously maintained, I have had a pleasing and satisfactory
interview with many of you, with reference to future exertions,
in cooperation with those of other lands, who unite with you in
regarding slave-holding and slave-trading as a heinous sin in
the sight of God, which should be immediately abolished. It is
the especial privilege of those who are laboring in such a
cause, to feel that 'every country is their country, and every
man their brother,' and to live above the atmosphere of
sectional jealousy and national hostility; and hence I feel an
assurance, that you will receive with kindness a few lines from
me on the eve of my departure to my native land.

"You concur generally in opinion, that in endeavoring to obtain
the great object we have in view, it is very important that the
friends of the cause should be united, not only in principle,
but, as far as may be, in the character of the measures which
they pursue; and I have been much encouraged in finding that you
have generally adopted the sentiment so rapidly spreading on the
other side of the Atlantic,--'That there is no reasonable ho