SLAVE-GROWN COCOA.
[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In connexion with the visit of Mr. Joseph Burtt to the United States as a deputation from the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, we have now received news of the beginning of the "campaign," which was opened by Mr. and Mrs. Burtt in Boston on the first of this month. Mr. John Daniels, of the Congo Reform Association in that city, who has thrown himself into the work as executive secretary of the temporary Committee which has been formed with great zest, writes :—" Mr. and Mrs. Burtt's work in Boston has been distinctly a success .. They have had excel- lent meetings and have done increasingly effective speaking." The meetings have been both of a public and private character, including, besides large public meetings, meetings of a devotional character, meetings with clergy and ministers, addresses to business men and jommalists, clubs, &c. We are informed that from the point of view of influencing the cocoa firms Mr. Burtt has done well, and two leading firms of cocoa manufacturers—Messrs. Baker and Co. and Messrs. Lowney and Co.—have shown their sympathy with the move- ment by contributing to the fund which is being raised. We are authorised to state that neither of these firms are buying Portuguese cocoa. -Upon leaving Boston Mr. and Mrs. Burtt were to go to New York, where several meetings had been already arranged, including an opening public meeting in the well-known old Plymouth Church at Brooklyn.—I am, Sir, [We are extremely glad to print this encouraging report of the opening of Mr. Burtt's campaign in the United States. We may note that it is being energetically backed by Leslie's Weekly, a leading illustrated journal that has been for fifty years opposed to slavery in any form.—ED.
Spectator.]
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