world, to decide this important question, as well as the time
and place of its meeting, should another Convention be resolved
upon.

"Since I have been in the United States, I have found those
abolitionists who approved the principles and proceedings of the
late Convention so generally in favor of another, and of London
as its place of meeting, that the only question seemed to be
whether it should be held in 1842 or 1843. This expression of
opinion is, I know, so generally in accordance with the views of
the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Committee, and of many
other prominent abolitionists in Europe, that I have little
doubt they will feel encouraged to act upon it, probably at the
latter period. There is abundant and increasing evidence of the
powerfully beneficial influence of the late Convention upon
almost every part of the world where slavery is still tolerated;
and we are encouraged to hope that the one in anticipation will
be still more efficient for the promotion of universal liberty.

"Painful as has been to me the spectacle of many of the leading
influences of the ecclesiastical bodies in this country, either
placed in direct hostility to, or acting as a drag upon, the
wheel of the anti-slavery enterprise--and of the manifest
preponderance of a slave-holding influence in the councils of
the State--I am not one of those who despair of a healthful
renovation of public sentiment which shall purify Church as well
as State from this abomination. There are decided indications
that all efforts of councils and synods to unite 'pure religion
and undefiled,' with a slave-trading and slave-holding
counterfeit of Christianity, must ere long utterly fail. And it
is to me a matter of joy, as it must be to every friend of
impartial liberty and free institutions, that the citizens of
this republic are more and more feeling that the plague-spot of
slavery, as with the increased facilities of communication its
horrors and deformity become more apparent in the eyes of the
world, is fixing a deep disgrace upon the character of their
country, and paralyzing the beneficial influence which might
otherwise flow from it as an example of a well-regulated free
government. May each American citizen who is desirous of washing
away this disgrace, to whatever division of the anti-slavery