Representatives, with instructions
to lay them before that body, at an early day.

The Committee appointed to consider on and report what measures,
&c. made the following report.

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

The Committee appointed "to consider of and report what measures
are necessary to be taken to promote the Abolition of the
Domestic Slave Trade, and to protect free persons of color from
being kidnapped, and whether any regulations might be adopted to
prevent their being carried off in steam boats, stages, and
coasting vessels," Report, that although in their opinion the
intimate connexion existing between the Domestic Slave Trade and
the system of slavery generally, precludes the expectation of
applying a very efficient check to the one, except by a reduction
of the other, yet they indulge the hope that the united influence
of the several Abolition and Anti-Slavery Societies throughout
the Union, directed to memorializing Congress, might procure some
wholesome restraint upon a traffick fraught with such aggravated
evil, and productive of such complicated misery.

In relation to the other subject submitted to them, viz. "the
protection of free persons of color against kidnappers," the
Committee are of opinion that the existing laws appear to be
amply sufficient, if properly executed. They have, therefore, no
other measures to recommend than the less obtrusive, but
persevering exertions, of the several associations now formed,
and which may be hereafter instituted, in the different sections
of our country.

On behalf of the Committee,

DAVID SCHOLFIELD, _Chairman_.[15]

_To the Abolition, Manumission, and Anti-Slavery Societies in the
United States of America._

FELLOW LABORERS.--In reviewing the labors of the several
Anti-Slavery Societies in the United States, there is much to
cheer and gratify us. In looking over the different sections of
our extended country, we find the cause of truth and humanity has
slowly, but regularly advanced, in the minds of our fellow
citizens generally. And we think nothing remains but perseverance
in presenting the subject of slavery in its native deformity and
its hideous aspect, to convince its advocates of their