In addition to his pastoral duties he was one of the founders and early editors of the I n dependent, the founder of the Christian Union, and its editor, and one of the most prominent of antislavery orators. In 1863 he went to England in order to do what he could to set that country right on the great question of slavery. The re sult was a veritable series of platform bat tles, especially with the public of Manches ter and Liverpool. But his bravery, his con summate oratorical skill, his unlimited good humor and the extraordinary quickness of his repartee won the day at last, and con verted enemies into friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.