seems very disingenuous in you to draw conclusions unfavorable to the sincerity of the abolitionists from premises so notoriously false, as are those which imply, that it is entirely at their own option, whether the abolitionists shall have their “societies and movements” in the free or slave States.  I continue to answer your question, by saying, in the second place, that, had the abolitionists full liberty to multiply their “societies and movements” in the slave States, they would probably think it best to have the great proportion of them yet awhile in the free States.  To rectify public opinion on the subject of slavery is a leading object with abolitionists.  This object is already realized to the extent of a thorough anti-slavery sentiment in Great Britain, as poor Andrew Stevenson, for whom you apologise, can testify.  Indeed, the great power and pressure of that sentiment are the only apology left to this disgraced and miserable man for uttering a bald falsehood in vindication of Virginia morals.  He above all other men, must feel the truth of the distinguished Thomas Fowel Buxton’s declaration, that “England is turned into one great Anti-Slavery Society.”  Now, Sir, it is such a change, as abolitionists have been the instruments of producing in Great Britain, that we hope to see produced in the free States.  We hope to see public sentiment in these States so altered, that such of their laws, as uphold and countenance slavery, will be repealed—­so altered, that the present brutal treatment of the colored population in them will give place to a treatment dictated by justice, humanity, and brotherly and Christian love;—­so altered, that there will be thousands, where now there are not hundreds, to class the products of slave labor with other stolen goods, and to refuse to eat and to wear that, which is wet with the tears, and red with the blood of “the poor innocents,” whose bondage is continued, because men are more concerned to buy what is cheap, than what is honestly acquired;—­so altered, that our Missionary and other religious Societies will remember, that God says:  “I hate robbery for burnt-offering,” and will forbear to send their agents after that plunder, which, as it is obtained at the sacrifice of the body and soul of the plundered, is infinitely more unfit, than the products of ordinary theft, to come into the Lord’s treasury.  And, when the warm desires of our hearts, on these points, shall be realized, the fifty thousand Southerners, who annually visit the North, for purposes of business and pleasure, will not all return to their homes, self-complacent and exulting, as now, when they carry with them the suffrages of the North in favor of slavery:  but numbers of them will return to pursue the thoughts inspired by their travels amongst the enemies of oppression—­and, in the sequel, they will let their “oppressed go free.”