Among the more far-seeing and practical statesmen of Great Britain, however--men who have ever dissented from the ultra views of abolitionists--there is an evident alarm that this headlong policy that has been pursued will rebound upon the interests of the mother country. Already the subject has become a source of anxious consideration, and the people of England are beginning to look around for some relief from that dependence upon American institutions which has heretofore been the reliance and support of millions of their workers. They find that the example they have set, and the policy they have urged, does not promise to be altogether so beneficial to them as they supposed. In this connection it will be interesting, as a matter of history, to preserve the master rebuke of Lord Brougham to the unconditional abolitionists of Boston, who invited him to be present at the John Brown anniversary of the past year. He says:-- "BROUGHAM, NOV. 20, 1860. "SIR--I feel honored by the invitation to attend the Boston Convention, and to give my opinion upon the question "How can American Slavery be abolished?" I consider the application is made to me as conceiving me to represent the anti-slavery body in this country; and I believe that I speak their sentiments as well as my own in expressing the widest difference of opinion with you upon the merits of those who prompted the Harper's Ferry expedition, and upon the fate of those who suffered for their conduct in it. No one will doubt my earnest desire to see slavery extinguished, but that desire can only be gratified by lawful means, a strict regard to the rights of property, or what the law declares property, and a constant repugnance to the shedding of blood. No man can be considered a martyr unless he not only suffers but is witness to the truth; and he does not bear this testimony who seeks a lawful object by illegal means. Any other course taken for the abolition of slavery can only delay the consummation we so devoutly wish, besides exposing the community to the hazard of an insurrection perhaps less hurtful to the master than the slave." CHAPTER IV. Progress of Abolition in America--An Era of Reforms--Southern Efforts for Manumission--Various Plans of Emancipation that have been suggested--The first Abolition journal--New York "Journal of Commerce"--William Lloyd Garrison, his Early Life and Associations--The Nat. Turner Insurrection in 1832, &c., &c.