hompson's) countrymen;
and stand forward as his protector, to save him from the missile that
might be aimed at him, and to receive into his own bosom the dagger
which might be aimed at his heart. His opponent might be anxious to
know what report he (Mr. T.) made on his return to Britain of his
proceedings in America. He would therefore read an extract from the
minutes of the LONDON SOCIETY for UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION:--

George Thompson was then introduced to the Committee, and
communicated at length the result of his Mission in the
United States, and the present cheering aspect of the
Anti-Slavery cause in that country. The following is a brief
outline of his statement:

He desired to be devoutly thankful to Divine Providence for
the signal preservation and help vouchsafed to him in all his
labors, perils, and persecutions. He considered it a high
honor to have been permitted to proclaim in the ears of a
distant people the great principles held by the Society.

He sailed from this country on the 17th August, 1834, landed
at New York on the 20th September, and commenced his public
labors on the 1st of October. His public Lectures were
continued down to the 20th October, 1835, during which period
he delivered between 2 and 300 public Lectures, besides
innumerable shorter addresses before Committees, Conventions,
Associations, &c. &c. His audiences had invariably been
overflowing, and composed from time to time of members of
State Legislatures, the Heads of Colleges, Professors,
Clergymen of all denominations, members of the legal
profession, and the students of nearly all the Theological
and Academical Institutions in New England. The result of his
labors had been the multiplication of Anti-Slavery
Associations to an unprecedented extent. Up to the month of
May, 1835, he met with no serious or formidable opposition.
At that time the National Society reported the existence of
250 auxiliaries, and its determination to appropriate during
the ensuing year the sum of 30,000 dollars in the printing of
papers and pamphlets to be gratuitously circulated amongst
the entire white population of the country. The Southern
States, previously almost silent and inoperative, soon after
commenced a system of terrorism, intercepting the public
conveyances, rifling the Mail Bags, scourging, mutilating or