We all know the vast moral power which England possesses in the United States, and we may readily conjecture how comforting it must be for those who are battling for the rights of a down-trodden race, in the face of a hostile senate, a hostile press, and a hostile aristocracy of slave-holders, to hear a cheer of encouragement from those across the water who feel that the position of the Anglo-Saxon race in the future of the world, depends upon the respect it now shews for the sacred rights, and the inherent nobility of humanity. CONTENTS. PAGE Be up and doing _Hon. Wm. H. Seward_ 9 Caste and Christ _Mrs. H. E. B. Stowe_ 11 Letter from the Earl of Carlisle to Mrs. H. B. Stowe 13 Momma Charlotte _Mrs. C. M. Kirkland_ 16 A Name _Hon. Horace Mann_ 19 Letter from Joseph Sturge 20 Slavery and Polygamy _R. Hildreth_ 20 The Way _John G. Whittier_ 22 The Slave and Slave-Owner _Miss Sedgwick_ 23 Letter from the Bishop of Oxford 25 Hide the Outcasts _Rev. William Goodell_ 25 Can Slaves rightfully resist and _Rev. Geo. W. Perkins_ fight? 28 Death in Life _Ebenezer Button_ 33 True Reform _Mrs. C. W. H. Dall_ 34 How Long? _J. M. Whitfield_ 35 Letter from Wilson Armistead 42 Impromptu Stanzas _J. M. Eells_ 44 John Murray (of Glasgow) _James M’Cune Smith_ 46 Power of American Example _Lewis Tappan_ 50 The Gospel as a Remedy for Slavery „ „ 52 Letter from Rev. C. G. Finney 54 The Slave’s Prayer _Miss C. E. Beecher_ 55 The Struggle _Hon. Charles Sumner_ 56 Work and Wait _Horace Greeley_ 56 The Great Emancipation _Gerrit Smith_ 58 Ode _Rev. John Pierpont_ 58 Passages in the Life of a Slave _Annie Parker_ Woman 61 Story Telling „ „ 68 The Man-Owner _Rev. E. Buckingham_ 70 Damascus in 1851 _Rev. F. W. Holland_ 73