NICHOLS, Secretary of the Meeting to the Hon. C. F. Adams , London, January 30, 1863

Mr. Nichols to Mr. Adams.

Sir: I have the highest satisfaction in forwarding to your excellency, as the representative of the United States, the enclosed resolutions of a crowded meeting, held in our largest building, at which not fewer than 4,000 persons were present, begging you will have the kindness to submit the document to the President.

So many gentlemen in public station having, of late, expressed opinions favorable to the recognition of the rebel States, it was felt no longer to be tolerable that the sympathies and opinions of the English people should be so mis-represented. It would not be possible for sympathizers with the slave power to obtain such a demonstration on behalf of the south, in any part of England, as those now afforded by the great centres of industry against slavery and its abettors.

Our worthy representative in the British Parliament, of whom we are proud as taking a position in the fore front of the enemies of oppression, and who presided over this meeting, can assure you of the unmistakable enthusiasm of the people of Bradford in passing the resolutions I have the honor to hand you, and their determined opposition to any interposition on behalf of the rebel slave-owners. The proceedings closed with three hearty cheers for President Lincoln, which expressed our earnest solicitude that he may be sustained by the Almighty Father of bond and free, in his righteous determination to bring to an end the accursed evil which has, for a time, severed the Union and provoked the just retribution of the Avenger of the oppressed on all who have been accessory to it.

That, on the basis of equal rights and justice to all inhabitants of the States, without distinction of race, your Union may speedily be restored, in its integrity, to peace and prosperity; and that, by the fellowship of an unfettered commerce, all nations may be bound up in your well-being, is the prayer of

Yours, most truly,