either in mercy or in judgment, the bonds of every slave should be broken.  He spoke in a very powerful manner.  In most of the epistles sent out from this Yearly Meeting, as well as from that of Philadelphia, the subject of slavery was introduced, and commended to the earnest consideration of the body, here and elsewhere.  Previous to the assembling of the Yearly Meeting, I had placed in the hands of one of its members, the following letter: 

[Footnote A:  See Appendix A.]

My Dear Friend,—­Wilt thou have the kindness to ask the Friends with whom it rests to grant such a request, to permit the use of the meeting house at a convenient time, either during the Yearly Meeting, or before those who attend from the country leave the city, for the purpose of affording my friend John Candler an opportunity of giving Friends some outline of emancipation in Jamaica.  I should like at the same time to give a little information on the state of the anti-slavery question in other parts of the world.  John Candler, it is I believe generally known, visited Jamaica with the full sanction of the “meeting for sufferings,” in London.  My visit to this country had no particular reference to the members of our Society, but my friends in England kindly furnished me with the enclosed documents.

    Affectionately,

    JOSEPH STURGE.

    New York, 5th Month 17th, 1841.

This request was kindly complied with.  The large meeting house was granted for the evening of the 27th.  The clerks of the men’s and women’s meetings gave public notice of it in their respective assemblies.  The former, the venerable and worthy Richard Mott, encouraged Friends to be present, and said, as a thinking and reasoning people, they need fear no harm from a calm consideration of the subject.  The attendance was large, including, I believe, most of those Friends who were from the country.  The following brief notice of it in the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, will explain the character of the meeting.

“On Thursday evening of last week, the members of the Society of Friends (Orthodox,) assembled in this city at their Annual Meeting, met at their meeting house in Orchard street, to listen to the statements of John Candler, of England, lately returned from a visit to the West India Islands, as to the results of emancipation in those Islands, and also of our esteemed friend, Joseph Sturge, in reference to the general subject of emancipation throughout the world.

“The meeting was largely attended.  The successful and happy results of the immediate emancipation of the slaves of the colonies, as detailed by John Candler, were calculated to strengthen the conviction that to do justice is always expedient.  Joseph Sturge gave a history of the progress of the anti-slavery cause in Great Britain from the time of the old abolition society, of which Thomas Clarkson was a member, and of which he is sole