Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net DISCUSSION ON AMERICAN SLAVERY, BETWEEN GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ., AGENT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND REV. ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE, DELEGATE FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES, TO THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ENGLAND AND WALES: HOLDEN IN THE REV. DR. WARDLAW'S CHAPEL, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, On the Evenings of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th of June, 1836, WITH AN APPENDIX. NEGRO UNIVERSITIES PRESS NEW YORK Originally published in 1836 by Isaac Knapp, Boston Reprinted from a copy in the collections of the Brooklyn Public Library Reprinted 1969 by Negro Universities Press A DIVISION OF GREENWOOD PRESS, INC. NEW YORK SBN 8371-2766-1 PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTRODUCTION. The following were the preliminary steps connected with the Discussion reported in the succeeding pages:-- Mr. BRECKINRIDGE'S Letter, expressing his willingness to meet Mr. THOMPSON at Glasgow, was occasioned by the following passage in Mr. THOMPSON'S Letter, which appeared in the _London Patriot_, in reply to the extracts inserted in that Journal, from the work published by the Rev. Drs. COX and HOBY, entitled, "The Baptists in America":-- "In the mean time, I am ready to meet Dr. COX in Exeter Hall, in his own chapel, or in any other building, to justify my charges against America and American Ministers; my general policy in the Anti-Slavery cause, and any particular act of which Dr. COX complains. I am ready, also, and anxious to meet any American Clergyman, or other gentleman, in any part of Great Britain, to discuss the general question, or the propriety of that interference, of which so much has been said by persons who are otherwise engaged, and most praiseworthily so, in interfering with the institutions, social, political, and religious, of every _other_ quarter of the Globe." * * * * * MR. THOMPSON'S CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. _To the Editor of the London Patriot._ SIR, A friend in this city, with whom I have stopped for a day or two, on my way to Scotland, has put into my hands your paper of the 23d inst., which contains Mr. George Thompson's letter of the 13th, attacking Dr. Cox. As to the difficulties which exist between those two gentlemen, I, of course, have no right to speak.