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and to permit our friends to do the same, according to them the grace of Sincerity, as we claim it for ourselves, is the true Christian course. While frowned on by a few, on this Free Labor subject, I was, at divers times, smiled at by some manufacturers, to whom I spoke on this difficult question, and who told me strange and sad tales in regard to impostures in Cotton, and more and more, convinced me that to confine our clothing apparel to articles, fabricated out of silk, wool, or linen, was the only plan to ensure its not being "slave grown produce" under the present dispensation. Not seeing a practical way to work in this matter, I have bided my time, doing other anti-slavery work, about which there exists no practical difficulty. Now, I trust, we are beginning to see the glimmering of the dawn of a brighter day for Africa, and her sable sons; and if the belief of that great and enterprizing man, Dr. Livingstone, (expressed in a recent letter to the Bishop of Oxford,) be correct, that he has discovered in Africa a great tract of land, peculiarly suitable for the growth of the far-famed "Sea Island Cotton," it seems to me that one part of a very difficult problem is in a fair way of being solved, and we may hope that the rest will follow in time.

But I am wandering away to the land where "sunny fountains roll down their golden sand," and must at once return and take you with me to Meltham Mills.

These mills (called by some the model mills of Yorkshire) are five miles distant from the cheerful, busy, manufacturing town of Huddersfield; the drive is a fine one, even in winter, up hill all the way. The mills stand in