The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

LORD BROUGH.A2II-.-711E ABOLITION 07
Sl; AVERY.

The following con espondence has been pub-

lished :

" Boston, Nov. 2, 1860.

" My Lord,—A numbs r of young men unconnected at
this time with any ergo) Asation, but earnestly desirous of
devoting themselves to t he work of eradicating slavery in
the United States, respect sfully invite you to meet them in a
public convention to be held in this city on Monday, the
3d of December next, and, there address them in reply to
the question, so vital to .the interests and honour of our
country and the progress. of freedom in the world—' How
can American slavery be abolished ?'
" It seems to them that the anniversary of the death of
John Brown, who on the 2d of December, 1859, was killed
for attempting to decide this problem in the mode that he
believed to be the most eficient, is an occasion peculiarly
appropriate for the discua don of our duty to the race for
whom he suffered, and mo re especially for the unfolding of
practical methods for achie Ting the holy object he desired
to attain by his descent on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
" An invitation, therefore, will be extended to the leaders
and representatives of all the different anti-slavery bodies
and to various men of eminence who have done honour
to their own souls by ad.Tocating the cause of impartial
freedom.

"Every one thus invited is expected in his speeches or
letters to confine himself cmclusively to the great question
of the'day, for it would be a work of supererogation now to
defend john Brown, and a useless waste of time to eulo-
gise him. Leaving both of these duties to the coming
ages, let us seek to continuo his life by striving to accom-
plish what he left us to fiaish.
"An immediate or speedy answer will greatly oblige, by
enabling us to make the necessary arrangements on a plan
sufficiently extensive.
"For the committee,
(.4 JAMES REDPATM, Secretary.
"Committee--C. W. Eldridge, W. D. O'Connor, R. J.
Hinton, W. W. Thayer, 11. Ford Douglass, I. L. Craigen,
J. Sella Martin, J. B. Smith, Herbert Gleason, John Oliver,
Edwin Coombs, J. H. Stephenson, Lewis Hayden, J. W.
Le Barnes, J. H. Fowler, A. B. Brown, Ad. Ackerman,.
James Redpath.
"To Henry, Lord Brougham."

" Brougham Hall, Nov. 20.

" Sir,—l feel honoured by the invitation to attend the
Boston Convention, and to give my opinion upon the ques-
tion, How can American slavery be abolished ? ' I consider
the application is made to me as conceiving me to represent
the anti-slavery body in this country ; and I believe that I
speak their sentiments as well as my own in expressing the
widest difference of opinion with you upon the merits of
those who promoted the Harper'a Ferry expedition, and
upon the fate of those who suffered for their conduct in it.
No one will doubt my earnest desire to see slavery extin-
guished; but that desire can only be gratified by lawful
means—a strict regard to the rights of property, or what
the law declares to be property, and a constant repugnance
to the shedding of blood. No man can be considered a
martyr unless he not only suffers, but is witness to -the
truth ; and he does not bear this testimony who seeks a
lawful object by illegal means. Any other course to ken
for the abolition of slavery can only delay the consumma-
tion we so devoutly wish, besides exposing the community
to the hazard of an insurrection, perhaps less hurtful to the
master than the slave. When the British emancipation
was finally carried it was accomplished by steps, and five
years elapsed between the commencement of the measars
in 1833 and its completion in 1838.

" The declaration of the law which• pronounced a slams
free as soon as he touched British ground (erroneously
ascribed to the English court under Lord Mansfield, but
really made by the judges in Scotland) may seem to be in-
consistent with, the principle now laid down. But lam
bound to express my doubts if such a decision would have
been given had Jamaica touched -upon the coasts of this
country. It is certain that the judges did not intend to
declare that all property in slaves should instantly censer
and yet such would have been the inevitable effect of their
judgment in the case supposed, which somewhat resembles
that of America.

" In the elevation of your new President all frienciai of
America, of its continued union, of the final extinction of
slavery by peaceful means, and of the utter immediate
extinction of the execrable slave trade—all friends of the
human race must heartily rejoice. They will, let ues hope,
find in him a powerful ally, as his country may en.peet to
find an able, a consistent, and an honest ruler.—l have the
honour to be your faithful servant, BROUG1:11AN.
" James Redpath, Esq., Boston, U.S."

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