becoming good citizens of the United States: a privilege and
elevation to which we look forward with pleasure, and which we
believe can be best merited by habits of industry and virtue.

We shall transmit you an exact copy of our proceedings, with the
different memorials and addresses which to us have appeared
necessary at this time; and would recommend to you the propriety
of giving full powers to the Delegates who are to meet in the
year 1795; believing that the business of that Convention will be
rendered more easy and more extensively useful, if you send, by
your Representatives, certified copies of the constitution and
laws of your _Society_, and of all the laws existing in your
state concerning slavery, with such facts relative to this
business, as may ascertain the respective situation of slavery,
and of the Blacks in general.

_To the Society for
promoting the abolition of slavery, &c._

The Delegates, from the several Abolition Societies in the United
States, convened in this city, express to you, with great
satisfaction, the pleasure they have experienced from the
punctual attendance of the persons, delegated to this Convention,
and that harmony with which they have deliberated on the several
matters that have been presented to them, at this time, for their
consideration. The benefits which may flow from a continuance of
this general meeting, by aiding the principal design of its
institution--the universal emancipation of the wretched Africans
who are yet in bondage, appear to us so many and important, that
we are induced to recommend to you, to send Delegates to a
similar Convention, which we propose to be holden, in this city,
on the first day of January, in the year one thousand, seven
hundred and ninety-six.

We have thought it proper to request your further attention to
that part of the address of the former Convention, which relates
to the procurement of certified copies of the laws of your state
respecting slavery; and that you would send, to the next
Convention, exact copies of all such laws as are now in force,
and of such as have been repealed. Convinced that an historical
review of the various acts and provisions of the Legislatures of
the several states, rel