Reception of George Thompson in Great Britain

Charles C. (Charles Calistus) Burleigh

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• Slavery
• Thompson

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• Langue: English
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BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAP?
1836.CONTENTS.
Page.
Introduction, 5
Great Anti-Slavery Meeting at Birming-
ham, Oct. 14, 1835, 13
Soiree, in honor of Mr. Thompson, at
Glasgow, Jan. 25, 183G, 33
Address presented to Mr. Thompson at
An Entertainment given by the inhab-
itants of Edinburgh, Feb. 19, 1836, . 58
Lecture at Jan. 1836, . 6427,
"Jan. 31, . 77
"Feb. . 858,
" at Glasgow, 96
Remarks at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Peace Meeting, 108
Lecture at Glasgow, Jan. 29, 1836, . 117
Address to Ministers, 141
Annual MeetingProceedings at the 2d
the Glasgow Emancipation Society,of
March 1, 1836, 150
Meetings London, 176in—
INTRODUCTION.
While Mr. Thompson remained in this
known that one of the fa-country, it is well
vorite accusations of the pro-slavery press
against a fugi-him, was, that he came hither
tive from justice—that obliged to leave Eng-
land, he visited America to avoid transporta-
to Botany Bay. To his persevering slan-tion
signified nothing that hederers it had the at-
testation of some of the best men of Great
Britain, to the excellence of his character as
a man and a Christian, and the incalculable
value of his services in the cause of humani-
it mattered not that he came as the repre-ty ;
sentative of a noble body of Philanthropists
including men illustrious for their talents
and attainments, learned divines, able legis-
ators, good and wise and pure-minded men
—highly esteemed on both sides of the Atlan-
tic, for their sterling worth, their ardent piety
and active benevolence and devotion to every—
VI INTRODUCTION.
andgood word work. It mattered not that
his own deportment here, was such as cor-
roborated the favorable testimonials of his
British friends—that he bore himself as a gen-
tleman and a Christian—that he exhibited
not only those qualities which dazzle and de-
and extort admiration,light, .but those also
which command respect and enchain affec-
tion. All this went for nothing. Enough
was it for the enemies of impartial liberty
the apologists of legalized man-stealing, that
Mr. Thompson's unrivalled eloquence was
enlisted on the side of justice, truth, and the
equal rights of man—enough that he was an
enemy and a formidable enemy to that ini-
quitous system which they had set themselves
to excuse and defend. By unwearied efforts
in the and abuse,work of calumny by con-
stant reiteration of gross falsehoods and in-
flammatory appeals to passion and prejudice
and national jealousy, they at length succeed-
ed in arraying against him a feeling of such
bitter hostility that he could no longer, with-
out exposing his life to imminent peril, con-
tinue to prosecute the purposes of his benev-
olent mission among us, and his friends here,
though reluctant with him and relin-to part