respectfully request them to appoint an Agent in Upper Canada, to
receive such funds as may be there transmitted for their use.

"Your Committee have now arrived at the _third_ and last inquiry,
viz.:--Is there any certainty that we, as a people, will be
compelled to leave this our native land, for a home in a distant
region? To this inquiry your Committee are unable to answer; it
belongs to the fruitful events of time to determine. The mistaken
policy of some of the friends of our improvement, that the same
could be effected on the shore of Africa, has raised the tide of
our calamity until it has overflowed the valleys of peace and
tranquillity--the dark clouds of prejudice have rained
persecution--the oppressor and the oppressed have suffered
together--and we have yet been protected by that Almighty arm,
who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, and whose
presence is a royal safeguard, should we place the utmost
reliance on his wisdom and power.

"Your Committee, while they rejoice at the noble object for which
the Convention was first associated, have been unable to come to
any conclusive evidence that lands can be purchased by this
Convention and legally transferred to individuals, residents of
said colony, so long as the present laws exist. But, while they
deem it inexpedient for the Convention to purchase lands in Upper
Canada for the purpose of erecting a colony thereon, do again,
most respectfully, hope that they will exercise the same laudable
exertions to collect funds for the comfort and happiness of our
people there situated, and those who may hereafter emigrate, and
pursue the same judicious measures in the appropriation of said
funds, as they would in procuring a tract of land, as expressed
by the resolution.

"Your Committee, after examining the various circumstances
connected with our situation as a people, have come, unanimously,
to the conclusion to recommend to this Convention to adopt the
following resolution, as the best mode of alleviating the
miseries of our oppressed brethren:

"_Resolved_, That this Convention recommend the establishment of
a Society, or Agent, in Upper Canada, for the purpose of
purchasing lands and contributing to the wants of our people
generally, who may be, by oppressive legislativ