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labours of the friends of emancipation.

To effect these desirable objects, so importunately called for by
every sentiment of a feeling heart, union and concentration of
energy appear to be indispensible. The societies should never be
found in the pursuit of incongruous measures, but act in concert;
and this cannot, perhaps be better accomplished than by a free
and liberal interchange of information, whence useful knowledge
should diverge to each society, communicating life, energy, and
consistency to the whole.

The advantages resulting from this institution may be known by
past experience; but as an additional instance of the good
effects flowing from it, we refer you to the addresses forwarded
this year to the Convention, and printed in the minutes; in which
you will perceive, and especially in the one from New York, much
valuable matter. That society mentions a species of kidnapping,
which to the disgrace of humanity, has been carried on in that
city in a manner at once evincing the barefaced hardiness of its
perpetrators, and the wicked and cunning arts practiced, by the
enemies of freedom, on an oppressed people. There is good reason
to believe, that similar practices are secretly pursued in other
parts of the Union. We therefore earnestly press your vigilant
attention to the subject, in order that if any other persons
should be engaged in this nefarious traffic, they may be made to
suffer that exposure and punishment which the enormity of the
crime so richly merits.

Fully impressed with the magnitude of the object, and the
benefits to be derived from it, we cannot forbear strongly to
recommend, that another Convention be held in this city on the
first Wednesday in June, in the year 1801. And, in order to
insure permanency, and its consequent advantages to this
establishment, we submit to your consideration, the expediency of
delegating to your Representatives, the power of aiding in the
formation of a Constitution, for the government of future
Conventions.

The case mentioned by the Virginia society, held at Richmond,
from which it seems evident that a small sum of money, beyond
what their funds are calculated to bear, might restore a
considerable number of persons to liberty, who were unlawfully
taken from thei