to the progress of the gospel; and that is enough for you to know to induce you to act.  You have as much knowledge as ever induced a Christian community in any part of the world to exert an influence in any other part of the world.  Slavery is a relic of paganism, of barbarism; it must be removed by Christianity; and if the light of Christianity shines on it clearly, it certainly will remove it.  There are thousands of hearts in the United States that rejoice in your help.  Whatever expressions of impatience and petulance you may hear, be assured that these expressions are not the heart of the great body of the people. [Cheers.] A large proportion of that country is free from slavery.  There is an area of freedom ten times larger than Great Britain in territory.[C] [Cheers.] But all the power over the slave is in the hands of the slaveholder.  You had a power over the slaveholder by your national legislature; our national legislature has no power over the slaveholder.  All the legislation that can in that country be brought to bear for the slave, is legislation by the slaveholders themselves.  There is where the difficulty lies.  It is altogether by persuasion, Christian counsel, Christian sympathy, Christian earnestness, that any good can be effected for the slave.  The conscience of the people is against the system—­the conscience of the people, even in the slaveholding states; and if we can but get at the conscience without exciting prejudice, it will tend greatly towards the desired effect.  But this appeal to the conscience must be unintermittent, constant.  Your hands must not be weary, your prayers must not be discontinued; but every day and every hour should we be doing something towards the object.  It is sometimes said, Americans who resist slavery are traitors to their country.  No; those who would support freedom are the only true friends of their country.  Our fathers never intended slavery to be identified with the government of the United States; but in the temptations of commerce the evil was overlooked; and how changed for the worse has become the public sentiment even within the last thirty or forty years!  The enormous increase in the consumption of cotton has raised enormously the market value of slaves, and arrayed both avarice and political ambition in defence of slavery.  Instruct the conscience, and produce free cotton, and this will be like Cromwell’s exhortation to his soldiers, ’Trust in God, and keep your powder dry.’” [Continued cheers.]

The Rev.  Dr. R. Lee then said:  “I am quite sure that every individual here responds cordially to those sentiments of respect and gratitude towards our honored guest which have been so well expressed by the Lord Provost and the other gentlemen who have addressed us.  We think that this lady has not only laid us under a great obligation by giving us one of the most delightful books in the English language, but that she has improved us as men and as Christians, that she has taught us