He and his friends spared no pains to secure a platform broad enough to hold American slaveholders, and in this partly succeeded.

But the question of slavery is too large a question to be finally disposed of, even by the{300} Evangelical Alliance.

We appealed from the judgment of the Alliance, to the judgment of the people of Great Britain, and with the happiest effect.

This controversy with the Alliance might be made the subject of extended remark, but I must forbear, except to say, that this effort to shield the Christian character of slaveholders greatly served to open a way to the British ear for anti-slavery discussion, and that it was well improved.
The fourth and last circumstance that assisted me in getting before the British public, was an attempt on the part of certain doctors of divinity to silence me on the platform of the World's Temperance Convention.

Here I was brought into point blank collison with Rev.
Dr.Cox, who made me the subject not only of bitter remark in the convention, but also of a long denunciatory letter published in the New York Evangelist and other American papers.