onfine our attention at present,
principally to carrying into effect the measures heretofore
advised. Let us, however, whilst prudent and cautious, continue
to be firm and sincere. Let us embrace every opportunity which
may offer for ameliorating the condition of slaves so far as the
laws, under which we severally act, will permit us to proceed.
Let us do nothing which may justly draw forth the censure of our
country, but act, in all things, with that moderation and
propriety which have heretofore distinguished the Abolition
Societies.

We confidently trust, that when the storms, by which the world is
at present agitated, shall have subsided, the light of truth will
break through the dark gloom of oppression--cruelty and injustice
will not only hear, but obey, the voice of reason and religion;
and in these United States the practice of the people will be
conformable to their declaration--"That all men are born equally
free, and have an unalienable right to Liberty."[6]

_To Society, &c._

The Convention of delegates, from the different Abolition
Societies established in the United States, feel a pleasure in
informing you, that their deliberations have been conducted with
much harmony and satisfaction to themselves.

They, however, deeply regret, that so few of the Societies have
been induced to send Representatives to the Convention.

The great and good work of restoring liberty to the captive, and
fitting him to fill that station in the scale of being, from
which he has been forced by the domineering spirit of power and
usurpation, may be considered as little more than begun. How many
thousands of miserable wretches yet languish in slavery, in these
United States, to whom the light of morn, which should awaken all
nature alike to harmony and joy, affords, perhaps, no other
consolation save the solitary certainty, that one day more is
taken from the long period of their sufferings--This is not
all--In vain do you liberate the Africans, while you neglect to
furnish him with the means of properly providing for himself, and
of becoming an useful member of the community. This subject alone
opens an extensive field for active benevolence, and justly
demands the exercise of a large portion of the talents a