"were relieved by a voluntary offer from that devoted friend of
the slave, John H. Cavender, who, with kindness at once
unexpected and gratifying, offered the use of a large unfurnished
building in Filbert Street, which had been used as a riding
school; which was satisfactorily and gratefully occupied by the
Convention."

In the year 1840, our Society sent delegates to the assembly
called "The World's Anti-Slavery Convention," which was held in
London, in the month of May of that year. As is well known, that
body refused to admit any delegates excepting those of the male
sex, though the invitation was not thus limited; consequently,
this Society was not represented there.

The year 1850 was an epoch in the history of the anti-slavery
cause. The guilt and disgrace of the nation was then intensified
by that infamous statute known by the name of "The Fugitive Slave
Law." Its enactment by the Thirty-first Congress, and its
ratification by Millard Fillmore's signature, was the signal for
an extensive and cruel raid upon the colored people of the North.
Probably no statute was ever written, in the code of a civilized
nation, so carefully and cunningly devised for the purpose of
depriving men of liberty. It put in imminent peril the personal
freedom of every colored man and woman in the land. It furnished
the kidnapper all possible facilities, and bribed the judge on
the bench to aid him in his infamous work. The terrible scenes
that followed; the cruel apathy of the popular heart and
conscience; the degradation of the pulpit, which sealed the deed
with its loud Amen! the mortal terror of a helpless and innocent
race; the fierce assaults on peaceful homes; the stealthy
capture, by day and by night, of unsuspecting free-born people;
the blood shed on Northern soil; the mockeries of justice acted
in United States courts; are they not all written in our
country's history, and indelibly engraven on the memories of
Abolitionists?

The case of Adam Gibson, captured in this city by the notorious
kidnapper, Alberti, and tried before the scarcely less notorious
Ingraham, in the year 1850, and which was succeeded in the next
year by the Christiana tragedy, are instances of many similar
outrages committed in Pennsylvania. No pen can record, no human