provisions
of the fugitive act to lay unfounded claims on the blacks and
thus, under colour of the law, to drag them into slavery. We
recommend you to urge every suitable means to procure such
modifications of your laws as they may need to fit them for
holding out efficient and prompt restraints against those wicked
proceedings, and for bringing the offenders to exemplary
punishment.

We are informed by the reports from New-Jersey, that a new
society has been established at Trenton, forming a constituent
branch of the general society of that state. This has afforded us
peculiar satisfaction; it promises to be materially useful to the
cause, and we recommend the example as worthy of your special
notice, and so far as you deem it practicable of your example.

In one of the societies from which we have had communications, a
standing committee has been appointed, who are charged with the
selection and publication of such extracts, essays and fugitive
pieces relative to slavery, as they apprehend may give currency
to the subject and revive in the minds of our fellow citizens,
from time to time a few reflections on the condition of those who
still wear the galling chains, deprived of one of the dearest
privileges of our nature. We highly approve of this mode of
circulating a knowledge of the subject, and recommend it to the
imitation of all, who are not in a similar practice.

The committee appointed by the last Constitution to arrange the
papers and documents relative to the formation of a history of
slavery in the United States, and to produce an analysis of their
contents, produced a report, from which we have judged it right
to nominate three of our members in Philadelphia to engage some
suitable literary character to undertake the work, and to have it
published under the care, and superintendence of the committee;
should you be in possession of any documents or other important
information on the subject, we request you will forward them free
of expense and with all convenient dispatch to the said
committee, in order that they may be used as circumstances may
render necessary.

The circuitous trade to Africa we have reason to believe, still
continues to be carried on, particularly from many ports in the
Eastern States, and althoug