oved the plan proposed, and, subsequently, the
following resolutions were unanimously adopted.

"Resolved,--That this meeting receives with great pleasure the
suggestion of our friend Joseph Sturge, of England, of a general
conference of the friends of peace, at the earliest practical
opportunity, at London, to consult on the measures which are
best adapted to promote universal peace among the nations of the
earth; and they respectfully refer the subject to the executive
committee of the American Peace Society, for their decision, on
correspondence and consultation with the friends of the cause in
this and other countries.

"Resolved,--That the suggestion by Judge Jay, of the insertion
of a clause in all conventional treaties between nations,
mutually binding the parties to submit all international
disputes, during the continuance of such treaties, to the
arbitration of some one or more friendly powers, presents a
definite and practicable object of effort, worthy of the serious
attention of the friends of peace. And this meeting recommends
to the friends of the cause, in different countries, to petition
their respective Governments in favor of the measure."

On the 30th, in company with John G. Whittier and C. Stewart Renshaw, I
went over to Lowell, the chief seat of the woollen and cotton
manufacture in America. Less than twenty years ago, there were not more
than forty or fifty houses on the site of this flourishing city, which
now contains upwards of twenty thousand inhabitants. Its numerous mills
are all worked by water power, and belong to incorporated joint-stock
companies. We were obligingly shown over two of the largest woollen and
cotton factories, where every stage of the manufacture was in process,
from the cotton, or sheep's wool, to the finished fabric. We also
visited works, where the printing of cottons is executed in a superior
style, besides a new process for dyeing cotton in the thread, invented
by an Englishman, now in the establishment. The following abstract of
the manufacturing statistics of Lowell, on the first of January, 1841,
will show the great importance to which this new branch of industry has
attained with such unprecedented rapidity.

Ten joint-stock companies, with a capital of ten millions of dollars,
having thirty-two woollen and cotton factories, besides print works, et
cet., with one hundred and seventy-