ies, it may be shewn by acts of
kindness and forbearance, but it _must be opposition_ and it _must be
shown_. It may exhibit itself in peaceable efforts to protect the
rights of free blacks, and instructing their offspring, or it may be
shown by rational attempts to enlighten the public mind on the
subject, or in encouragement of those publications that are so
employed; or by memorials to congress and the state legislature, &c.
&c.

Our means of considerable efficiency for exciting the public mind to
the consideration of the injustice and impolicy of slavery, may
probably be found in the persevering efforts now making on the part of
many friends of abolition to encourage the creation and consumption of
the products of free labour.

We cannot withhold the tribute of our respect and admiration from
those patriotic females, who have associated for this purpose both in
England and America, and heartily, recommend their example, as one
worthy of universal imitation.[1]

WM. KESLEY, CHAIRMAN.

A TABLE SHEWING THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND REQUISITIONS OF THE CONVENTION
OF 1796, AND OF FORMER CONVENTIONS, AND HOW FAR THEY HAVE HITHERTO
BEEN COMPLIED WITH BY EACH SOCIETY.

I. _To send delegates to a Convention to meet at Philadelphia in May,
1797._

New-York Society, complied.
New-Jersey society, ditto.
Pennsylvania society, ditto.
Maryland society, (_at Baltimore_) ditto.
Choptank society, (_Maryland_) ditto.
Alexandria society, (_Virginia_) ditto.
Virginia society, (_at Richmond_) ditto.

Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Washington (_Pennsylvania_,) Wilmington,
(_Delaware_,) Delaware, Chester-town (_Maryland_,) Winchester,
(_Virginia_) and Kentucky societies sent none.

II. _To transmit certified copies of all the laws in the respective
states relating to slavery; as well of those repealed as of those in
force._

Connecticut transmitted in 1795.
New-York, in 1797.
New-Jersey, in 1796.
Pennsylvania, in 1797.
Maryland, in 1797.
Virginia and Alexandria in 1797.

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