from the scantiness of their funds and other circumstances, to
employ regular tutors, to form associations of their members, or
other well disposed individuals, to instruct the people of colour
in the most simple and useful branches of education; especially
on the first day of the week--a day too often devoted to
dissipation. It is also of importance that their religious and
moral education should keep pace with their knowledge of letters,
or much permanent good will not be accomplished. They should be
taught to fear and venerate the Deity; to respect the laws of the
country, and in all things to act as becomes men escaped from
bondage, and on whose good conduct must, in some measure, depend
the liberation of their brethren, and the kind of treatment of
such as remain in slavery. We believe it would be profitable
occasionally to convene them, in order to afford suitable
opportunities to impress their minds with these truths.

As much good may be expected to result from the establishment of
a fund, to be at the disposal of the Convention, we hope the
laudable example set by some of the societies, in their donations
for that purpose, will be followed by wealthy individuals, and by
other societies who are in a capacity to afford it.

A person of established literary reputation has been engaged to
write a history of the rise, progress, and present state of
slavery in the United States; and some advancement has been made
in the work--As a great variety of information on this subject
will be necessary, to enable the author to compose a correct and
ample history, you are requested to collect and forward, without
delay all such essays and facts, relative to the design, as may
be in your power.

At the same time that we invite a vigilant and constant
attention, in the friends of the blacks, to prevent as far as
their power extends, the infraction of the laws of the country in
favour of emancipation, we confidently trust that due care will
be observed to select men to the several offices of the
societies, who have their zeal tempered with prudence and
knowledge; for we are sensible, that for want of sound discretion
on the part of some well-meaning but over-zealous individuals,
the views and conduct of the body at large, have been grossly
misu