1895.] l^J [Potts, 



SUPPLE MENTAU 7. 



The following valuable letter was received to day (May 16), too late for 

 insertion in the foregoing, and as it forms an historical paper of especial 

 interest, written by one of the last three survivors of tlie Emancipation 

 Society of Liverpool's Committee of Twenty-five, the Honorary Secretary 

 Col. Robert Trimble, now of Taranaki, New Zealand, who has been a 

 member of Parliament there, and has held numerous political offices, it is 

 an excellent supplement to the foregoing. The letter is addressed to Mr. 

 Thomas H. Dudley's sister-in-law. Miss Matlack. 



Col. Trimble was the author of several pamphlets explaining and sym- 

 pathizing with the action of the North, wliich we give in a footnote.* 



W. J. P. 



"Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand, April 18, 1895. 



" 3fp Dear Miss Matlack : — Mrs. Trimble has passed to me your letter 

 of February 24 to b9 answered. I need liardl}-- say that I am glad that 

 Mr. Dudley is to have a fitting biography. Upon it could be grafted a 

 whole history of the exterior attitude of the United States. The work 

 passed over to Mr. Dudley was to all appearances overwhelming, and was 

 without precedent for guidance. It looked many a time as if he would 

 break down, so heavy were tlie odds. A passionate love for his country, 

 and a temper singularly equable, carried him over or around all his 

 difficulties. 



" I now, in accordance with your request, send you a tew memories of 

 men and movements, looking tame enough now, after the lapse of over 

 thirty years, but once instinct with life and redolent of human hopes. 

 Nor was fear wanting. During the great epic struggle between the 

 powers of light and of darkness there were times when it almost seemed 

 as if the darkness had won. Hence we used to say, ' We do not say the 

 North shall win, but we say it ought to win.' 



"Never during the tempest did Mr. Dudley despair of the State. The 

 news was sometimes cruelly bad, but he always carried a head erect and 

 a heart undaunted. 



* Slavery in the United States of America. A Lecture delivered in Liverpool, December, 

 1861, by Robert Trimble. 



The Negro North and South. The Status of the Coloured Population in the Northeru 

 and Southern States of America Compared. By Robert Trunblo. 



Popular Fallacies Relating to the American Question. A Lecture delivered in November, 

 1S63, by Robert Trimble. 12mo, pp. 36. 



A Review of the American Struggle in the Military and Political Aspects, from the inaugu- 

 ration of President Lincoln, 4th March, 1861, till his reelection, 8th November, 1864. By 

 Robert Trimble. 12mo, pp. 48. 



The Present Crisis in America, by Robert Trimble. 1865. 12mo, pp. 10. 



These pamphlets were printed, London : Whittalcer & Co. ; Liverpool : Henry Young ; 

 Manchester : Abel Heywood & Son. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXIV. 147. Q. PRINTED MAY 29, 1895. 



