although, strictly speaking, this form
of Slavery can scarcely be classed with that resulting from the
African Slave-trade. In the United States of America in 1865 the
fetters of six millions of Slaves in the Southern States were
melted in the hot fires of the most terrible civil war of modern
times. Passing on to South America, and looking to Brazil, it
may be noted with satisfaction that all of the small republics
formerly under the rule of Spain put an end to Slavery at the
time they threw off the yoke of the mother country. The great
Empire of Brazil has alone, I regret to say, retained the curse
which she inherited from her Portuguese rulers. At the present
moment she possesses nearly a million and a half of Slaves on
her vast plantations, but arrangements are made for their
gradual emancipation.

"Now, having taken this glance at the condition of Slavery
to-day, I will add, in the words of the Society, that 'the chief
object of this jubilee meeting is to rekindle the enthusiasm of
England, and to assist her to carry on this civilising torch of
freedom until its beneficent light shall be shed over all the
earth.' The place in which this meeting is held, the character
of this great meeting, and the reception these words have
received, assure me that I have not done wrong in stating freely
these objects. One of the objects of the Society is to circulate
at home and abroad accurate information on the enormities of the
Slave-trade and of Slavery, to give evidence--if evidence,
indeed, be wanting--to the inhabitants of Slave-holding
countries of the pecuniary advantages of free labour, and to
diffuse authentic information respecting the beneficial result
to the countries of emancipation. The late Duke of Gloucester,
in the course of a speech made by him in 1825, said that 'his
family had been brought to this country for the protection of
the rights and liberties of its subjects, and as a member of
that family he should not be discharging his duty towards them
if he did not recommend the sacred principles of freedom by
every means in his power.' Most heartily and most cordially do I
endorse his words.

"I rejoice that we have on the platform the eminent sons of two
eminent fathers in the work of abolishing the Slave-trade and
Slavery. Lord Derby and Mr. Forster, whom I