emigrated from the French West-Indies into the United States,
have engaged the attention of this and the preceding Conventions.
To remove these difficulties, we transmit you a certified copy of
an authenticated decree of the National Convention of France, of
the sixteenth Pluviose, second year of the Republic; (February
fifth, 1794,) which has been lately received by the Pennsylvania
Abolition Society. With this decree, since fully confirmed by the
French constitution of 1795, we believe you will have it in your
power to afford every legal and effectual assistance to these
unfortunate people.

There yet remains a subject which, though often urged, still
continues to demand our serious attention; we allude to the most
proper means of extending the principles of just and equal
liberty amongst mankind: and as we profess to assume no other
powers than those of persuasion and convincement, founded on the
unerring basis of truth and justice, we wish you duly to advert
to the magnitude of the cause in which we are engaged, to
persevere with patience and fortitude in your applications to
legislative bodies and courts of justice, for the relief of our
unfortunate African brethren, and to continue to enlighten the
public mind, by spreading as much as possible, all kind of useful
information on the subject: that thus we may, in every form, and
on every occasion, be ready to plead the cause of the oppressed,
in the language of persuasion and of truth. And then we shall
have done our duty; and then we may, in humble confidence, look
up for the blessing and protection of the great Father of all,
_whose ways are just and equal, and who hath made of one blood
all nations of men_.[5]

_To the Society for promoting the
Abolition of Slavery, &c._

THE Convention of delegates from the Abolition Societies
established in different parts of the United States, assembled
at Philadelphia, congratulate their constituents on the general
progress of their objects since last meeting, and on the union of
sentiment, and harmony of deliberation, which has prevailed in
all their proceedings.

The assembling in Convention, at proper intervals, has produced
so many advantages in combining the views and operatio