stance, declared to be unlawful
so to traffic in any place or manner, except only what the
constitution, at present, denies the power of restraining, _viz._ the
importation of slaves into the United States.

Whether further experience may point out defects at present not seen,
the committee cannot predict. It may not, perhaps, be prudent to aid
avarice and inhumanity by the attempt.

Ordered, That the said report be accepted.

On motion,

Resolved, That this Convention address the free black people, in the
United States, exhorting them, by suitable arguments and motives, to
such conduct and behaviour as may be judged most proper to promote
their own happiness, and render them useful members of society.

Ordered, That Samuel Coates, Robert Patterson, and William Dunlap, be a
committee to prepare, and report, an address conformable to the said
resolution.

Adjourned till to-morrow evening at six o'clock.

_January 14th. 1795._

The Convention met.

Present--Uriah Tracy, Zephaniah Swift, Theodore Foster, William
Johnson, Lawrence Embree, William Walton Woolsey, James Sloan, Robert
Patterson, Benjamin Rush, Samuel Coates, Caspar Wistar, James Todd,
Benjamin Say, Cyrus Newlin, Joseph Warner, Joseph Townsend, and James
Houston.

The address, to the Legislature of the state of Georgia, was read a
second time, and, being amended, was adopted as follows, _viz._

_To the ---- of the State of Georgia._

The memorial and petition of the Delegates from the several
Societies, formed in different parts of the United States,
for promoting the abolition of slavery, in Convention
assembled, in Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January,
1795.

_Respectfully shew_,

THAT the Convention, assembled in the month of January, 1794, addressed
your body on the subject of the African slave-trade; and the present
Convention, not having been informed of the success of that memorial,
have thought it a duty incumbent on them, to re-call your attention to
some points nearly connected with the honor of humanity, and the
interest of your state, and of the United States.

We have learned, with the highest satisfaction, that you have
prohibited the importation of slaves into your state, from all other
parts of the world, except Africa. We congratulate you, and the friends
of humanity in general, on such a step; but the time, we hope, is not
far distant, when every motive of wisdom and true policy will