In Guadaloupe eighty-five thousand slaves were freed in a white population of thirteen thousand.  The same prosperous effects followed manumission here, that had attended it in Hayti, every thing was quiet until Buonaparte sent out a fleet to reduce these negroes again to slavery, and in 1802 this institution was re-established in that Island.  In 1834, when Great Britain determined to liberate the slaves in her West India colonies, and proposed the apprenticeship system; the planters of Bermuda and Antigua, after having joined the other planters in their representations of the bloody consequences of Emancipation, in order if possible to hold back the hand which was offering the boon of freedom to the poor negro; as soon as they found such falsehoods were utterly disregarded, and Abolition must take place, came forward voluntarily, and asked for the compensation which was due to them, saying, they preferred immediate emancipation, and were not afraid of any insurrection.  And how is it with these islands now?  They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those on which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.

And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous consequences now?  “Be not deceived then, God is not mocked,” by such false excuses for not doing justly and loving mercy.  There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

Sisters in Christ, I have done.  As a Southerner, I have felt it was my duty to address you.  I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth’s sake.  I have appealed to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as Christian women.  I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.  I have done—­I have sowed the seeds of truth, but I well know, that even if an Apollos were to follow in my steps to water them, “God only can give the increase.”  To Him then who is able to prosper the work of his servant’s hand, I commend this Appeal in fervent prayer, that as he “hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty,” so He may guise His blessing, to descend and carry conviction to the hearts of many Lydias through these speaking pages.  Farewell—­Count me not your “enemy because I have told you the truth,” but believe me in unfeigned affection,

Your sympathizing Friend,