"Mr. Balme is a very extensive author, and the work before us is a very able exposure of slavery in all its forms and with all its patronage. The book is well got up, and will, we trust, have a rapid sale."-Glasgow Examiner, Sept. 13, 1862.

"His book is replete with interesting matter; a well furnished store-house of facts."-Morning Advertiser, Aug. 7, 1862.

"Rev. J. P. Mursell, said, Mr. Balme had long been known to him by name as one of the most unflinching advocates of freedom in America, and had made it his object to purify the Church of the dreadful sin of slavery. He quite sympathised with his fervour and enthusiasm, and honoured him for it. He had not only advocated freedom but suffered for it."-Report of a Public Meeting at the Town Hall, Leicester, May 1861, in the Leicester Mercury