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"The rapid progress of public opinion, as to the iniquity of
slavery, and the entire safety, as well as advantage, of its
immediate abolition--the attention which has been awakened to it
in all parts of the civilized world--the movements in France,
Spain, Brazil, and Denmark, and other countries with
slave-holding dependencies, all indicating that the days of
slavery are numbered, should serve to encourage and stimulate us
to increased exertions; and while it is a cause of profound
regret, that any thing should have disturbed the harmony and
unity of the real friends of emancipation in this country--the
hardest battle field of our moral warfare--I am not without
hope, that, in future, those who,--from a conscientious
difference of opinion, not as to the object, but the precise
mode of obtaining it,--cannot act in one united band, will
laudably emulate each other in the promotion of our common
cause, and in Christian forbearance upon points of disagreement;
and that, where they cannot praise, they will be careful not to
censure those, who, by a different road, are earnestly pursuing
the same end. Without entering into the controversies which have
divided our friends on this side the water, I believe it would
be nothing more than a simple act of justice for me to state, on
my return to Europe, my conviction that a large portion of the
abolitionists of the United States, who approve of the
proceedings of the late General Anti-Slavery Convention, and are
desirous of acting in unity with the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society, from the general identity of their
practice, as well as principles, with those of the British and
Foreign Society, are entitled to the sympathies, and deserving
of the confidence and co-operation of the abolitionists of Great
Britain. It has been my pleasure to meet, in a kindly
interchange of opinion, many valuable and devoted friends of
emancipation; who, while dissenting from the class
above-mentioned in some respects, are nevertheless disposed to
cultivate feelings of charity and good will towards all who are
sincerely laboring for the slaves. And in this connection I may
state, that neither on behalf of myself, or of my esteemed
coadjutors in Great Britain, am I disposed to recriminate upon
another class of abolitio