ABSTRACT
We are happy to be able to lay before our readers the following letters from DOUGLASS and BUFFUM, announcing their safe arrival in England, after the remarkably short passage of eleven days and a half. The intelligence will be very gratifying to a large number of personal friends, as well as to a host of abolitionists, who will watch with lively interest the tour of these devoted advocates of emancipation through England, Scotland and Ireland. But, as we have no room for the thoughts to which we should be glad to give utterance, let us first hear what Douglass has to communicate:
DUBLIN, Sept. 1, 1845. DEAR FRIEND GARRISON: Thanks to a kind Providence, I am now safe in old Ireland, in the beautiful city
of Dublin, surrounded by the kind family, and seated at the table of our mutual friend, JAMES H. WEBB, brother of the well-known RICHARD D. WEBB.39 I landed at Liverpool on Thursday morning, 28th August, and took lodgings at the Union hotel, Clayten Squire [sic],40 in company with friend Buffum and our warm-hearted singers, the Hutchinson family. Here we all continued until Saturday evening, the 30th instant, when friend Buffum and myself (with no little reluctance) separated from them, and took ship for this place, and on our arrival here, were kindly invited by James,41 in the temporary absence of Richard D. Webb and family, to make his house our home.
