The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-31

pleasure of seeing her, for the present Thomp
son | sought at one or two anti-slavery homes,
before could find trace of him. At Alderman
bury, they could tell me nothing of his whereabou
except that he was probably near London. In
deed found Aldermanbury silent, lonely, almos
deserted, except an occasional visit from its Secre
tary, Mr.. Stokes but the associations OF the place
make me finger awhile, looking around on It's we'll
filed presses its long piles OF documents, It's bustS
| and books-that scene OF so many sacrlhces, coun'
sells, and struggles, whose resuc stretch over both
Ihemispheres and into ages to come.
found news of our friend, at last at the Brit.
ish India Society; and on Wednesday called al
his rooms. He looks well, seems strong-busy
deeply engaged, just setting off for Glasgow, to
address meeting there on the first of August
whittier he urged me to go with him. but it was
mpossbe-much to my regret We are afraid
o stay longer than absolutely necessary in this
damp, cold climate. He has been very kind in in
Producing me to persons and places. saw him
daily while he remained in town: yet, owing to
his multiplied engagements, correcting the proofs
of the account of the great India meeting, attend
ing committee consults &C., we had not a great
deal of conversation together. | was glad howev-
er, TO be able to give him, what he had not SEEM
file olthe Liberator since January. He left us on
Saturday, with repeated charges to give his best
owe and kindest remembrance to you all. re-
member said he, every hole into which crept
in America-every man that saw: they are all
dear Tell them | am not, perhaps able to judge
vet about the present differences. MY heart is
knit to them all, but especially to the Massachu-
sets aboliionists
We went together to the House of Commons.
have heard some of the principal speakers
Hume, Russell, Spring, Rice, Peel, Lushngton,
Sir James Graham. 1t was cheering to observe
the constant vigilance and ernest attention on ev-
cry sub ect which could effect, in the remoest de-
gree, the slavery question:; and this from both
sides of the House. That foul stain on the Eng
fish government-the apprenticing of the negroes
found in the captured slave shps-(afer which
they are usually lost sight of and frequently mer
ged in the slave population, especially in Cuba,)
was commented on and pledges given by the colo
NAL Secretary, that it would be discontinued in
future. Washington introduced the subject of the
Coolies. 1t excited an animated discussion from
Wings and Tories, and all the speakers demanded
that the contracts made by those unhappy men,
should be annuIled by government, at any cost, and
the importation forbidden in future. O'Connell
was present awhile, but took no part in the debates
| owe to his kindness my second admission to the
House. No one enters, even into the galleries,
without permit from member,
The friends here are deeply interested in the
great meeting ofnext year, fixed for 18th of June
1910. Dawes and his comrade, with myself at
tended meeting of the committee of the British
and Foreign A. S. Society, in which it was dis
cussed. Surge presided They were very anx-
ious to have large representation from America.
Thompson insists on your coming, accompanied
by many of the men and women of our ranks. A
large body of questions have been prepared suit
ed to every quarter of the world where slavery ex-
sts or has just been abolished, which, if attended
to by the delegates, will place before the world a
more valuable body of information than we have
seen hitherto. The Committee voted delegation
10 wait on Daniel Webster, who is now in the
city.
The friends here are most deeply engaged in
The investigation Of the India question. Thomp-
son is swallowed up in it. You will see by the
Ia large stock of which are sent with
his and Miss Pease's contribution to the Ladies
Fair,) that it has the most direct bearing on A
mercan slavery. 1t seems, from the testimony of
India Stockholders India Governors, English cot
ton and sugar merchants that labor in India is less
than taoopence per day; and sugar may be placed
in the English market at eighteen pounds sterling
per ton-while the American and West India is
selling at f42. Such is the testimony Of the rich
L oottoHs w
ded at three pennies a pound, while ours sells at
nine pence.
Gladstone, the great Observation-Disclosures for
having originated the importation ofthe Hill Coo
within month, that his invest
ments in the East yielded double what they did in
the West Indies; and i'll his own words, Ills all
up NTH Slaue labor
Brougham and OConnell have entered the
field At a great meeting here, they both spoke
with great eloquence. Brougham compmented
our friend Thompson more than ever. A host OF
are marshalled to claim for India
The liberty to acork-for it seems an oppressive
land-tax grnds them to the dust Yet notw.h-
sta ndng this, the prices are as stated above. II
is whispered, also, that several capitalists are en-
barking largely in the cotton trade in East india
The first ship that enters British harbor, fregh-
ted with the result of such investments, bears with
her the death-warrant of slavery in the United
States and the Brazils
They tell Us of Eastern magic, which chang
ed gold into slate stones in your very hand
Perhaps we can unseal from their imprisonment,
some of those genii of the East, like the fisher
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