The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1852.

TO Till EDITOR 0I• TIIE 'STRESS.

Sllk—May I request you to insert in your paper
this letter and the copy of the propereed address which
accompanies it It is with great reluctance that I put
myself forward, and venture to suggest a course of pro-
ceeding to my fair fellow subjects, but I am impelled to do
so by a feeling almost irresistible—a feeling in which they
and many others will lam sun participate. In the days
in which we live more is to be permanently effected by
public opinion, and by appeal to the great sympathies of
mankind, than by force or by statute law. if this or
some such address were undertaken by local committees,'
enriched by many signatures, and then transmitted to
America, it would not fail, with God's blessing, to pro-
duce a deep and fruitful impression.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Nov. 6. SUAFTESBURY.

no affectionate and Christian address of many
thousends of the women of England to their Mein, the
women of the United Stews of America. . .

A common origin, a common faith, and, we sincerely
believe, a common cause, urge us, at the present moment,
to address you on the subject of that s)Pem of negro
slavery, which still prevails so extensively, and with
' such frightful results, in many of the vast regions of the
Westeta World. We will not dwell on the ordinary
topics ; on the progress of civilisation ; on the advance
of freedom everywhere; on the rights and requirements of
' the nintreentheentury ; but we appeal to you very seriously
to reflect, and to ask counsel of God bow far each a state
of things is in accordance with His holy word, the inalien-
able rights of immortal swan, end the pure and merciful
spirit of the Christian lefties. We do not shut our eyes to
the ditticulties—nay, the &wipes that would beset the
immediate abolition of thee limeostablishoil system : we see
and admit the necessity et lion for so great an event ;
but, in speaking of intl.speeseble preliminaries, we cannot
be silent on that law of your country which, in direct con-
travention of God's law " instituted iu the days of man's
innocency,' denies to the slave the sanctity of marriage,
with all its joys, rights, and obligations—which separates at
the will of the master the wife from the husband and the
children from the parents ; nor can wo be silent on that
awful system which, either by statute or by custom,
interdicts to any race of man, or any portion of
the human family, education in the truths of the
gospel and the ordinances of Christianity. A re-
medy applied to these two evils alone would commence
the amelioration of their sad condition. We appeal, then,
to you, as slaters, as wives, and as mothers, to raise your
voices to your fellow-citisens and your prayers to God, for
the removal of this aftletion from the Christian world. We
do not say these things in a spirit of self complacency, as
though our nation were free from the guilt it perceives in
others ; we acknowledge, with grief and shame, our heavy
share in this great sin ; we acknowledge that our fore-
fathers introduced, nay, compelled the adoption of slavery
in those mighty colonies; we humbly confess it before
Almighty God ; and it is bemuse we su deeply feel, and so
unfeignedly avow, our own complicity, that we now venture
to implore your aid to wipe away oar common guilt, and
oar mouses dishonour."