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intellectual and moral worth been assembled in London.
Mr. Bright presided, with Mr. Garrison on his right, and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll on his left.
On the right of Mr. Garrison sat Earl and Countess Russell and their daughter, and at the same or other tables were John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Professors Maurice and Huxley, William E. Forster, and many other members of Parliament, Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan (daughter of Zachary Macaulay), Miss Cobden, Lady Lyell and Miss Lyell, Professor Fawcett and wife, Professor Beesly,1 Victor Schoelcher,2 W. Vernon Harcourt, Jacob Bright,3 Justin McCarthy, Edward Miall, Frederic Harrison, Geo. J. Holyoake, William Black, and scores of others.
Of Mr. Garrison's English anti-slavery friends there were the Ashursts, Stansfelds, Shaens, Taylors, Thompsons, and Chessons; and Richard D. Webb came over from Ireland for the occasion.
America was represented by the U. S. Consul at London (Mr. Morse), and by a number of anti-slavery friends who were happily in London—Mrs. Chapman's daughters and the Rev. William Henry Channing being among these, while Miss Sarah Remond, Bishop Payne of the African M. E. Church, Rev. J. Sella Martin, and William and Ellen Craft well represented the enfranchised race.
The American Minister sent the following letter, which was read by Mr. Chesson:
2 As Colonial Minister under the French Republic of 1848, Schoelcher precipitated the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
4 To F. W. Chesson.
5 W. L. G. Breakfast, p. 15.
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