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1850. adds that it was scarcely possible to comply with it, for a 

 true account of Mr. Galloway's services to Science was in 

 itself a eulogium. 



1851. Those of us who can look back more than thirty years 



afer>'. w ^ remember the feelings excited in England on negro 

 slavery by < Uncle Tom's Cabin' how it brought to a 

 climax the sympathies and efforts of those who had long 

 worked in the same cause, and how it stimulated those 

 who had been inactive, because ignorant of what was 

 going on, to consider how she or he could contribute 

 towards diminishing the sufferings of the negroes. My 

 husband felt intense interest in this question, and pity 

 for the sufferers on both sides. I remember his sitting 

 up the greater part of one night reading f Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin,' and it was evident that the subject pressed 

 heavily on his mind. We found several friends, among 

 them some active abolitionists from the United States, 

 who liked our idea of a National Address from Great 

 Britain to the United States of America, to be signed by 

 every one who could think and feel upon the subject. Mr. 

 De Morgan drew up an address such as appeared to these 

 friends calculated to encourage a wise effort at gradual 

 but certain emancipation. It claimed for us, the writers, 

 a right to offer sympathy and assistance, inasmuch as our 

 countrymen and women had, until very lately, been accom- 

 plices in the enslavement of the negro. It invited mutual 

 consultation and counsel, and promised what help could 

 be afforded by one nation to another in the tremendous 

 work of getting rid of the burthen of slavery with as little 

 injury as possible to slave-owners and slaves. One or two 

 friends, men of worth and learning, gave some suggestions 

 in the writing of this document, of which I have not now 

 a copy. Had it been sent in its original form, and ac- 

 cording to the wishes of its promoters, its influence would 

 have been hardly a drop in the ocean ; and, as it after- 

 wards proved, the time for remonstrance and argument 

 was nearly over. But our design was not carried into 



