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90 cardinal points the maintenance of the Federal Union, and the Abolition of Negro Slavery in the United States.

“This movement, by embracing both the political and philanthropic elements of that great struggle, was in advance of the action of the then existing organisations, and events have shown that it was more in consonance with the spirit and necessities of the crisis.

“Sympathisers with the Slave Power had already established societies to excite the passions and mould the opinions of the people into an approval of the so-called Confederacy; but the labours of this society demonstrated to our American brethren that the majority of the people were as true as ever in their admiration of free institutions, and their hatred to Slavery.

“The General Council, at this, their last meeting, sincerely thank you for the munificent aid you have so cheerfully given to sustain their operations, and to accomplish the objects of the Society; and they trust that you may long live to continue your patriotic labours in the cause of progress, and to realise your earnest aspirations for the political enfranchisement of all nations.”

The following names are attached to the Address:—

Thomas Bazley, Esq., M. P. E. A. Leatham, Esq. P. A. Taylor, Esq., M. P. Guildford J. H. Onslow, Esq., M. P., Winchester. Thomas Hughes, Esq., M. P. Duncan M‘Laren, M. P., Edinburgh. John Stuart Mill, Esq., M. P., London. Lieut.-General T. Perronet Thompson.