Mr.Lincoln must declare for emancipation and unless he does it within thirty days, I have written to Mr.Seward that our cause is lost." I returned to London with a heavy heart; all of our friends there with whom I conversed echoed the sentiments of Mr.Dayton.One of them said to me: "Earl Russell has no especial love for your Union, but he abominates negro slavery, and is very reluctant to acknowledge a new slave-owning government.

Prince Albert and the Queen are friendly to you, but you must emancipate the slaves." My return passage from Liverpool was on board the _Asia_, and Captain Anderson commanded her for that voyage.

When we reached Boston, we heard the distressing news of the second Battle of Bull Run, and our prospects were black as midnight.

Captain Anderson remarked to me, in a compassionate tone: "Well, Mr.Cuyler, you Yankees had better give it up now." "Never, never," I replied to him.

"You will live to see the Union restored and slavery extinguished." He laughed at me and bid me "good-bye." A few years afterwards, I laughed back again when I met him in New York.
On Sunday evening, September 7, I addressed a vast crowd in my own Lafayette Avenue Church, and told them frankly, that our only hope was in a proclamation for freedom by President Lincoln.