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Wardlaw are
no more among the ways of men. Thus, while we read, while we write,
the shadowy procession is passing; the good are being gathered into life,
and heaven enriched by the garnered treasures of earth.
H.B.S.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
INTRODUCTORY.
LETTER I. The Voyage.

LETTER II. Liverpool.--The Dingle.--A Ragged
School.--Flowers.--Speke Hall.--Antislavery Meeting.
LETTER III. Lancashire.--Carlisle.--Gretna Green.--Glasgow.
LETTER IV. The Baillie.--The Cathedral.--Dr. Wardlaw.--A Tea
Party--Bothwell Castle.--Chivalry.--Scott and Burns.
LETTER V. Dumbarton Castle.--Duke of
Argyle.--Linlithgow.--Edinburgh.
LETTER VI. Public Soirée.--Dr. Guthrie.--Craigmiller Castle.--Bass
Rock.--Bannockburn.--Stirling.--Glamis Castle.--Barclay of Ury.--The
Dee.--Aberdeen.--The Cathedral.--Brig o'Balgounie.
LETTER VII. Letter from a Scotch Bachelor.--Reformatory Schools of
Aberdeen.--Dundee.--Dr. Dick.--The Queen in Scotland.
LETTER VIII. Melrose.--Dry burgh.--Abbotsford.
LETTER IX. Douglas of Caver.--Temperance Soirée.--Calls.--Lord
Gainsborough.--Sir William Hamilton.--George Combe.--Visit to
Hawthornden.--Roslin Castle.--The Quakers.--Hervey's Studio.--Grass
Market.--Grayfriars' Churchyard.
LETTER X. Birmingham.--Stratford on Avon.
LETTER XI. Warwick.--Kenilworth.
LETTER XII. Birmingham.--Sybil Jones.--J.A. James.
LETTER XIII. London.--Lord Mayor's Dinner.
LETTER XIV. London.--Dinner with Earl of Carlisle.
LETTER XV. London.--Anniversary of Bible Society.--Dulwich
Gallery.--Dinner with Mr. E. Cropper.--Soirée at Rev. Mr. Binney's.
LETTER XVI. Reception at Stafford House.
LETTER XVII. The Sutherland Estate.
LETTER XVIII. Baptist Noel.--Borough School.--Rogers the
Poet.--Stafford House.--Ellesmere Collection of Paintings.--Lord John
Russell.

INTRODUCTORY
The following letters were written by Mrs. Stowe for her own personal
friends, particularly the members of her own family, and mainly as the
transactions referred to in them occurred. During the tour in England
and Scotland, frequent allusions are made to public meetings held on
her account; but no report is made of the meetings, because that
information, was given fully in the newspapers sent to her friends with

the letters. Some knowledge of the general tone and spirit of the
meetings seems necessary, in order to put the readers of the letters in as
favorable a position to appreciate them as her friends were when they
were received. Such knowledge it is the object of this introductory
chapter to furnish.
One or two of the addresses at each of several meetings I have given,
and generally without alteration, as they appeared in the public journals
at the time. Only a very few could be published without occupying
altogether too much space; and those selected are for the most part the
shortest, and chosen mainly on account of their brevity. This is
certainly a surer method of giving a true idea, of the spirit which
actually pervaded the meetings than could be accomplished by any
selection of mere extracts from the several speeches. In that case, there
might be supposed to exist a temptation to garble and make unfair
representations; but in the method pursued, such a suspicion is scarcely
possible. In relation to my own addresses, I have sometimes taken the
liberty to correct the reporters by my own recollections and notes. I
have also, in some cases, somewhat abridged them, (a liberty which I
have not, to any considerable extent, ventured to take with others,)
though without changing the sentiment, or even essentially the form, of
expression. What I have here related is substantially what I actually
said, and what I am willing to be held responsible for. Many and bitter,
during the tour, were the misrepresentations and misstatements of a
hostile press; to which I offer no other reply than the plain facts of the
following pages. These were the sentiments uttered, this was the
manner of their utterance; and I cheerfully submit them to the judgment
of a candid public.
I went to Europe without the least anticipation of the kind of reception
which awaited us; it was all a surprise and an embarrassment to me. I
went with the strongest love of my country, and the highest veneration
for her institutions; I every where in Britain found the most cordial
sympathy with this love and veneration; and I returned with both
greatly increased. But slavery I do not recognize as an institution of my
country; it is an excrescence, a vile usurpation, hated of God, and
abhorred by man; I am under no obligation either to love or respect it.
He is the traitor to America, and American institutions, who reckons
slavery as one of them, and, as such, screens it from assault. Slavery is

a blight, a canker, a poison, in the very heart of our republic; and unless
the nation, as such, disengage itself from it, it will most assuredly be
our ruin. The patriot, the philanthropist, the Christian, truly enlightened,
sees no other alternative. The developments of the present session of
our national Congress are making this great truth clearly perceptible
even to the dullest apprehension.
C.E. STOWE.
ANDOVER, May 30, 1854.

BREAKFAST IN LIVERPOOL--APRIL 11.
THE REV. DR. M'NEILE, who had been requested by the respected
host to express to Mrs. Stowe the hearty congratulations of the first
meeting of friends she had seen in England, thus addressed her: "Mrs.