H. Clarke, T. Briggs, Rev. Geo. Huntington, Rev. W.
Whitelegge, Messrs. Armstrong, Stutter, Neild, Crowther, Stenhouse,
Parker, Hough, W. Potter, Bromley, etc. Mr. Mortimer Collins, the
Secretary of the Association, was also present. The districts were
severally represented by the following gentlemen: Stockport--Messrs.
Constantine and Leigh; Rochdale--Mr. Thos. Staley; Bradford--Mr. J.
Leach; Hyde--Messrs. Wild and Fletcher; Glossop--Mr. C. Schofield;
Oldham--Messrs. Whittaker, Steeple, and Councillor Harrop; Delf and
Saddleworth--Mr. Lees, J.P.; Macclesfield--Messrs. Cheetham and Bridge;
Heywood--Mr. Fairbrother; Middleton--Mr. Woolstencroft; Alderley
(Chorley)---Mr. J. Beesley, etc., etc."]

[Footnote 1138: So reported by _The Index_, Jan. 14, 1864, p. 20, in
comment on speeches being made by Forster and Massie throughout
Lancashire.]

[Footnote 1139: _The Index_, Jan. 14, 1864, p. 22.]

[Footnote 1140: Mason Papers. To Mason.]

[Footnote 1141: _The Liberator_, Dec. 26, 1862, giving an extract from
the London _Morning Star_ of Dec. 4, and a letter from George Thompson.]

[Footnote 1142: _U.S. Diplomatic Correspondence_, 1863, Pt. 1, p. 18.
Adams to Seward, Dec. 18, 1862, enclosing a pamphlet issued by the
Association.]

[Footnote 1143: Its appeal for funds was addressed in part to women.
"Fairest and best of earth! for the sake of violated innocence, insulted
virtue, and the honour of your sex, come in woman's majesty and
omnipotence and give strength to a cause that has for its object the
highest human aims--the amelioration and exaltation of humanity."]

[Footnote 1144: _The Index_, Jan. 14, 1864, p. 23. The committee of
organization was as follows:--

The Most Noble the Marquis of Lothian,
The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath,
The Lord Robert Cecil, M.P.,
The Lord Eustace Cecil,
The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe.
The Right Honourable Lord Campbell,
The Hon. C. Fitzwilliam, M.P.,
The Honourable Robt. Bourke,
Edward Akroyd, Esq., Halifax,
Colonel Greville, M.P.,
W.H. Gregory, Esq., M.P.,
T.C. Haliburton, Esq., M.P.,
A.J.B. Beresford Hope, Esq.,
W.S.Lindsay, Esq., M.P.,
G.M.W. Peacocke, Esq., M.P.,
Wm. Scholefield, Esq., M.P.,
James Spence, Esq., Liverpool,
William Vansittart, Esq., M.P.

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Chairman: A.J.B. Beresford Hope, Esq.
Treasurer: The Lord Eustace