ating to slavery, from the periods of
their respective settlements to the present time, by tracing the
progress of the system to African slavery in this country, and
its successive change in the different governments of the Union,
would throw much light on the objects of our enquiry and
attention, and enable us to determine, how far the cause of
justice and humanity has advanced among us, and how soon we may
reasonably expect to see it triumphant;--we recommend to you, to
take such measures as you may think conducive to that purpose,
for procuring materials for the work now proposed, and assisting
its publication; and to communicate, to the ensuing Convention,
what progress you shall have made toward perfecting the plan here
offered for your consideration and care.

Believing that an acquaintance with the names of the officers of
the several Abolition Societies, would facilitate that friendly
correspondence which ought always to be preserved between our
various associations, we request that you would send, to the
next, and to every future Convention, an accurate list of all the
officers of your Society, for the time being, with the number of
members of which it consists. And it would assist that Convention
in ascertaining the existing state of slavery in the United
States, if you were to forward to them an exact account of the
persons who have been liberated by the agency of your Society,
and of those who may be considered as signal instances of the
relief that you have afforded; and, also, a statement of the
number of free blacks in your state, their property, employments,
and moral conduct.

As a knowledge of what has been done, and of that success which
has attended the efforts of humanity, will cherish the hope of
benevolence, and stimulate to further exertion, we trust that you
will be of opinion with us, that it would be highly useful to
procure correct reports of all such trials, and decisions of
courts of judicature, respecting slavery, a knowledge of which
may be subservient to the cause of abolition, and to transmit
them to the next, or to any future Convention.

It cannot have escaped your observation, how many persons there
are who continue the hateful practice of enslaving their fellow
men, and who acquiesce in the sophist