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Show iv. are at leisure to give me a short hearing. Not that . I expect to be heard very widely. No one knows, more than l do, the want of popularity of the subject. Multitudes would think it a waste of time to give their thoughts to this great question of justice and humanity. But still there are not a few to whom the truth will be welcome. Such will find, that in these pages I am not going again over the ground which I have already travelled; and I hope they will feel, that, having begun with" Slavery," I am fitly ending with "Emancipation." The latter part of the tract discusses a topic, which I have occasionally touched on, but which needs a more full exposition, and on which I have long wished to communicate my views. The Duties of the Free States, in regard to Slavery, need to be better understood, and my suggestions I hope will be weighed with candor. As I have taken little interest for years in the politics of the day, and as my hope for the country rests not on any party, but solely on our means of education, and on moral and religious influences, I ought not to be accused of wishing to give a political aspect to the anti-slavery cause. I am very u~willing, that it should take the form of a struggle for office and power. Still it has political relations ; and of these I shall speak with perfect freedom. The topic is an exciting one ; but as I look at it with perfect calmness, I hope I shall not disturb the minds of others. November 15, 1840. ' EMANCIPATION. AT length a report of West Indian Emancipation has reached us, to which some heed will be giv·en ; and it is so cheering, that I should be glad to make it more extensively known. We l1ave had, already, faithful and affecting accounts of this great social revolution; but coming from men, who bear an unpopular name, they have received little attention. Here we have the testimony of a man in no way connected with American Abolitionists. In his long residence among us, Mr. Gurney has rather shunned this party, whether justly or wisely I do not say. The fact is stated, simply to prevent or remove a prejudice from which he ought not to suffer. He came to this country on no mission from the enemies of slavery in his own land. Nor did he come as so many travellers do, to gather or invent materials for a marketable book; but to preach the gospel in obedience to what he thought "a heavenly call." ln this character he visited many parts of our land, and every where secured esteem as a man, and won no |