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LETTERS FROM THE OLD WORLD.

NUMBER LXII.

THICK HOLLINS, near HUDDERSFIELD,
November 17th, 1858.

MY DEAR FRIEND:—I greatly enjoyed a visit to this interesting place early last spring and had fully purposed to give you some account of it, but as my long illness came on soon after I quitted Yorkshire, and compelled me to abstain for many weeks from writing, I never carried out my intention of telling you something of Meltham Cotton Mills, and what I saw and heard there; but now, that I find myself once again a guest at beautiful Thick Hollins, looking out, not only on the adjacent wooded uplands, and rich valleys, out on the lengthy range of buildings which spread themselves along the hollow, to the left, I am resolved, without delay, to jot down a few things about Brook`s Cotton Mills that may prove interesting to you, and to some of your readers, in a day when Cotton is peculiarly talked of and thought of, not only by manufacturers and philanthropists, but by missionaries and travelers in many lands. I have had my share of thought about Cotton, (and I may add, my share of lectures, too, on Cotton.) I believe that some of my friends have made the great mistake of supposing that, because I could not see my way to bring the subject of Cotton, and the duty of Abolitionists using only Free Labor Cotton, before every anti-slavery committee I have had the pleasure of forming, or meeting, my Abolitionism was of a very neutral tint indeed! Be that as it may, I am satisfied that, to endeavor strictly to follow the dictates of our own conscience in this and similar matters,