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82 Anerican Anti-Slavery Society. Bwfaess HeeUas; of the America Aati -Slavery Society. The seventh Annual Meeting, for business, was held, pursuant to the call of the Executive Conunit-ee, in the fourth Free Church in New-York, on Miiv 12th. at 4 o'clock P. M.

The President being absent, Francis Jackson, of Massachusetts, one of the Vice Presidents, took the chair. Prayer wu offered by Benjamin Shaw, oF er- -mont. On motion of the Recording- Secretary, the following Assistant secretaries were appointed Chavncy L. KwArr, of Vermont, William Bassett, of Massachusetts. William F.

Gahdm, of New Jersey. Samuel D. Hastings, of Pennsylvania. Cuarlks L. Remold, of Rhode Island.

The call was then made for the names of members to constitute the roll. On motion of W. Dcnison, Mr. Black, from Jamaica, W. was invited to a seat in the society.

The following persons were named by the chair, and appointed the Committee of Business William Lloyd Garrison, Chairman, Ichabod Cod-diner, Thomas Davis, Rowland T. Robinson, Amos A. Phelps, Abby Kelly, William I Chaplin, Lewis tTappan, Charles C. Burleigh, Charles W. Gardiner, and Charles W.

Dcnison. The vote appointing Miss Kelley being doubted, the house vu divided, and on a count there appeared 557 in favor and 451 against her election. Lewis Tappan, Amos A. Phelps, and Charles W. Denison, successively asked to be excused from serving on the committee, for reasons assigned having reference to the appointment of Miss Kelly as a member.

They were excused, and the following appointed in their, room i James S. Gibboxs, of New-York. Ellis Gray Loring, of Massachusetts. Robert IIaxiva, of Ohio. On motion of John A.

Collins of Massachusetts, it was voted that no person should speak more than five minutes at onetime; and on motion of Mr. Gleason of Connecticut, it was voted that no person should speak more than twice to the same question. 1 Mr. Robinson, of New Hampshire, moved a resolution, that it be deemed out of order to manifest either approbation or disapprobation of speakers or proceedings by audible demonstrations. Pending this question, the Society, adjourned till 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Wednesday Morning. The Society met pursuant to adjournment Francis Jackson in the chair. Prayer by Charles W. Gardiner of Pennsylvania. The following letters were read by the Recording Secretary, by request of the Chairman of the Business Committee letter from twenty ministers' or THE M.

E. CHURCH. Baltimore, Md. May 9th, 1640. To the American A.

S. Society: We the undersigned, ministers of the Methodist E. Church, and members of the General Conference of said church now holding its session in the city of Baltimore, take this method to address you. It would have afforded us. great pleasure to meet with you on the present occasion, and some of us would have done it, had it not been for our connection with this Conference.

-We represent the church in the States where we in this, its highest ecclesiastical council. We regard the present meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society as one of immense importance to the Anti-Slavery cause, and it is our earnest prayer, that the genius of universal rather, the God of truth and love, may preside in your counsels and direct in your decisions. We exceedingly regret the present aspect of affairs in the Anti-Slavery cause. We are afflicted with unfeigned sorrow that any subjects, foreign to the design in which it originated, should have dis turbed its councils and diverted its friends from the great object to the accomplishment of which their efforts should be directed, the annihilation of slavery. We address you, not in the character of Methodists, or Methodist ministers, though such we are, but as lovers of our country and of universal man.

We believe that abolitionists should use the whole of their influence, whether civil or religious, for the removal of slavery from our country and the world. And without expressing any opinion as to the propriety of a third political party, we believe that it is the duty of abolitionists to carry their principles to the polls and use the elective franchise as a sacred trust committed to them in the providence of God, for the faithful use of which they are responsible to the highest tribunal in the universe. We exceedingly regret that the operations of the Anti-Slavery cause have been embarrassed by foreign, sectarian and local opinions on other subjects, which have been attempted to be forced not only on the American Anti-Slavery Society, but now upon a convention of the world. And should the Jlmerican Anti-Slavery Society endorse these extraneous matters, as is the design, as we understand, of their originators, by bringing into the convention a large number favorable to these views, then we recommend that the true friends of abolition proper, by a new organization or otherwise, adopt such measures as in their judgment will be best fittsd to carry out the principles and measure in which we have all been agreed, till within the last two years. cannot but hope that the American Society now on the eve of its annual assemblage, will adopt such measures as will effectually disencumber this holy caase from all foreign and extraneous subjects.

Belonging as we do, in different States, we are to a very considerable extent, acquainted with the views entertained by the fast friends of our cause in those States. We know that they are looking to the doings of your body, at present, with intense interest, that the single purpose of the Anti-Slavery enterprise shall, by you, be so disincumbered and made to stand forth before tlie American People with such pre-eminence that all shall fully understand what is the great and only object of its organisation. That you may be directed by wisdom from above, and your present doinirs more effectual ly than ever promote this object, is the prayer of yours lor the true and the right. Joseph A. Merrill, Jotham Horton, Orange Scott, Frederick Upham, Massachusetts Phineas Crandall, E.

W. Stickney, A. D. Merrill, Rhode Islattd Eze-kiel Robinson, Benj. Jones, Moses Hill, Dan'l.

B. Randall, W. Larrabee, R. E. Bailey, Maine; J.

F. Adams, J. Perkins, D. Cahoon, S. Chamberlin, Jas.TempIeton,ifeniu7i and Hampshire Jona.

Dodge, John Parker, LETTER FROM THE riTTSBCRO AND ALLEGHANY A. SOCIETIES. meeting of members of the Old Pittsburgh -Alleghany A. S. Societies, held in the first Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, on Tuesday evening, May 5th, by special invitation, to consider subjects of importance in regard to the approaching anniversary of the National A.

S. Society, to be held iu New York on the 12th inst Whereas, the members of the above societies, not being able from the pressure of the times to defray the expenses of a delegate to the above named anniversary, they consider it their duty to express their sentiments on some momentous subjects. 1. Resolved, That we seriously pderteate the transfer of the Emancipator into private hands for other reasons, as well as that recent events evidence the necessity of strict supervision by a judicious Execu tive we also fully concur with the sentiments of We pruivsi ui o. vjiuuuiis.

2. Resolved, That we seriously deprecate the the destruction of the National A. S. Society, under anr circumstances whatever, believing it be the sim- plest and most efficient organization that can be devised for the overthrow of despotism in our land. 3.

Resolved, That wo mu-t solemnly deprecate the scheme proposed in the Emancipator, of forming an Independent Board of Commissioners for the aboli tion of American Slavery, like that of the A. B. C. Missions, and the apjxjinLnent of such boards under their control, in the different states, which are designed to supersede the National Society, and the different state societies. We deprecate such a scheme, because it is anti-republican it is a monopoly of power; it will become a self-elected body, and therefore irresponsible; it would be an oligarchy, subject to the dangerous influence which absolute power always engenders.

We see its sad re-: suit in the proposed model, A. B. C. F. Missions fat who would have conjectured, that that Board would have held slaves, or have put a gag on their missionaries, in regard to slavery and yet such, we have reason to believe, has beenthe case.

4. Resolved, That we lament the course pursued by some of the agents of the National A. S. Society, and also by the Emancipator, in giving countenance to the deplorable divisions in the anti-slavery cause in Massachusetts. 5.

Resolved, That we would deprecate any steps as fraught with the spirit which would exclude from our Society, the noble, self-denying men who, for conscience sake, have disfranchised themselves being convinced that such intolerance was never contemplated at the National Convention in fi. Resolved, That we deprecate the formation of an Anti-Slavery Political Party, sensible that it would tend to submerge our moral power in the dead sea of selfish noliev and worldlv expediency. 7. Resolved, That we consider the platform of v.i: i i-: In Ififtt uie iiauonai j. o.

isocieiy, as iiu uuu sufficiently ample to admit all true friends, of the oppressed, without infringing on the rights of conscience. We desire it may so remain, and therefore solemnly deprecate all attempts to narrow the platform bv forced interpretations, or to lower the standard of our holy enterprise. Resolved, That if it be not our duty to sustain political men who refuse to advocate the cause of liberty and the rights of the slave, still more it is not our duty, (since in the church the leprosy begins,) to sustain churches or professed ministers, who refuse, either from cowardice or expediency, to obey the mandate of heaven in these particulars. If the former are unworthy of confidence, the latter are much more so as the potency of Christian influence exceeds that of political. 4 9.

Resolved, That without attempting' to justify every expression, or every step of the Liberator, during the present unhappy distentions in Massachusetts, the fearful and fearless editor of that paper, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, has our unshaken confidence. 10. Resolved, That we most cordially approve of the uncompromising fidelity of the Old Pioneer A. S.

Society of Massachusetts, in defending and sustaining the rights of the slave, and the principles ofl833. 11. Resolved, That, as we most sincerely desire to promote the purity of our cuu, and the affectionate, peaceful co-operation of all engaged therein, as the conflicting powers of the world are often harmonized by the counsel of a third disinterested ptr-ty, so we think, if the contending parties of Massachusetts would agree to take counsel of a few of the pious, the wise and the benevolent, whom they will meet in London during the World's Convention, and submit thereto, that they may again, like kindred drops, be mingled into one otherwise we fear wider divisions will take place, the tremendous onus of which will rest upon those who love party more than principle. 12. Resolved, That the.foregoing Resolutions bo immediately transmitted for publication in the Liberator, Herald of Freedom, Emancipator, Freeman, Christian Witness, and Wm-M.

Chace moved that the letters be published with the proceedings of the Society which motion, on motion of S. J. May, was laid upon the table. The resolution offered yesterday, by Mr. Robinson, of New Hampshire, was taken up and carried.

On motion of Setli Sprague, of Massachusetts, Voted, That the rules of practice "in Jefferson's Manual be adopted for our guidance, except as they may be altered from time to time by vote of the Society. Ellis Gray Loring of Massachusetts offered a resolution, which, after being amended, was adopted as Resolved, That no resolution shall be brought before the Society without having been first presented to the business committee. On motion of C. C. Burleigh, Edwin Fussell, of Indiana, was added to the business committee.

On motion of C. C. Burleigh, voted that a committee of one from each State Society be appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing year. A series of resolutions on political action was presented by the business committee, the last of which wa3 taken up first, and rejected as follows Resolved, That it is inexpedient for the existing Anti-Slavery Societies to take any action in reference to political elections, nominations, or candidates for office, other than to recommend opposition to all candidates who will in any manner sustain, in their official action, the institution of slavery. The Society then adjourned till 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Afternoon Session. The Society met pursuant to adjournment. Prayer by Otis Thompson of Massachusetts. The President nominated and the society appointed -the following persons to nominate officers for the ensuing year Thos. Earle, Pennsylvania D.

L. Child, Massachusetts Thos. Van Raenselaer, New York Nathan Winslow, Me. Joseph Sisson, Rhode Island George W. Benson, Connecticut; David Robinson, New Hampshire James B.

Whitcomb, Indiana; Benjamin Webb, Robert Hanna, Ohio; A. N. Dougherty, New Jersey R. I. Robinson, Vermont; J.

J. Miter, Illinois. J. J. Miter, at his own request, was excused from serving on the committee.

The resolutions in relation to political action were taken up. Various proposals were made to amend them, but only one amendment was made. were adopted separately, mol -cf them by nearly unanimous votes, as follows Whereas, It has long been regarded as a settled doctrine by this Society, that no consistent abolitionist can vote for any candidate for office, who will not use his official power when he rightfully can, in promoting the repeal of all laws, and the change of all constitutional provisions which tend to uphold slavery therefore, Resolved, That, as abo litionists, we cannot give any countenance to the election of Martin Van Bu-ren, or Wm. Henry Harrison, to the presidency of the United States, without violating our anti-slavery principles and professions; inasmuch as both of them have publicly committed themselves in support of slavery. Whereas, Slavery must be destroyed, or the agricultural, mechanical, and manufacturing, and commercial interests of the country must perish therefore, Resolved.

That the existence of slavery is the grand cause of the pecuniary embarrassments of the country and that no real or permanent relief is to be expected by the establishment a national bank or a sub-treasury, until the total abolition of that execrable system. Resolved, That the eulogy bestowed upon William Henry Harrison, by the Hon. William Slade, at the conclusion of his speech in the U. SL House of Representatives, in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, tends to neutralize the effect of that speech upon the hearts and consciences of Die people, and exerts a disastrous influence on the cause of the slave. Resolved, That without intending-to pass a censure on those abolitionists who urge the formation of an abolition political party, or the nomination of candidates for office on abolition grounds, we heartily disapprove the adoption of such measures, as inexpedient and injurious to the cause they are designed to promote.

Resolved, Therefore, That we regret the course pursued by the lecent Convention ot the friends of immediate emancipation, at Albany, in nominating candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States, and highly as we respect the gentlemen whose names were brought before the public as nominees of that Convention, we cannot advue our friends to waste their energies in futile efforts to promote their election. On motion of A. G. Comings, of Mas3achusetts.it was voted, that a committee of finance be named by the chair. The following were appointed: James S.

Gibbons, of New York; S.S. Cowle, of Connecticut E. W. Jackson, of Massachusetts. The following persons were added to the nominating committee Samuel J.

May, Andrew Robeson, Parker Pillsbury, Abrani Folsom, N. Wm. Balls, Samuel Hill, II. II. Garnet, W.

S. Chaplin, N. Dr. Weeks, Joseph Tarish, Jr. N.

Thos. Whit-son, 1-Mward -M. Davis, Robert Hanna, II. Kingsbury, Ohio; C. L.

Reinorid, David Doten, Cl Knapp, Benj. Shaw, Vt; G. L. Clark, Win. Aplin, R.

1. The Recording Secretary read the following note from the President of the Society Rev. Joshua Leavitt, Rec. Sec'y A. A.

S. Soc Dear Sir Apprehending a recurrence of the scenes witnessed last year at our business meetings, and resolved not to be found contending with my, Abolition brethren, I shall not be present with you and request that you will communicate to the Soci-ty, that I do not wish to be considered a candidate for the office I have hitherto occupied. That God may overrule the machinations of dis- II inn. 5 THE LIBERATOR organizers among as, arfd save ns from the disgrace I apprehend, is the prayer of your friend, (Signed) A. TAPPAN.

May 12, 184a On motion of W. L. Garrison, voted, that the thanks of the Society be presented to Arthur Tap-pan for his long continued and faithful services as President of the Society. Adjourned till 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. Tiit asnAT, May 14, 1840.

The Society met pursuant to adjournment. Francis Jackson, Vice President, in the chair. Prayer by David Millard, of New Hampshire. Wm. Lloyd Garrison read various.

propositions to amend the Constitution of the Society. They were al! indefinitely postponed, except tlie one which proposed that the Executive Committee should be elected by the Society instead of the Board of Managers. This last was adopted by the constitutional majority. W. L.

Garrison, from the Business Committee, re ported a series of resolutions relative to the sale of the Emancipator, wnich, alter being amended, were adopted as follows Resolved, That the reasons assigned in the Annual Report of the Executive Committee for the sale and transfer of the Emancipator are unsatisfactory to this Society, for the following among oilier reasons 1. Because the receipts into the treasury within the past year have been upwards of 47,000 dollars, and because the resources of the Society at the time of said transfer much eireeded its liabilities; and there was, therefore, no prospect of a permanent want of means to continue its publication. '2. Because the transfer of the organ which has been the object for several years of a heavy expenditure on the part of the American Anti-Slavery Society, without consulting that Society, and on the eve of its annual meeting, showed a want of proper respect in said Committee for the will of their constituents was a deviation from the line of their duty, and can hardly fail to be injurious to the anti-slavery cause. Resolved, That wo consider that the New-York City Anti-Slavery Society are, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, morally and honorably bound to re-transfer the Emancipator to this Society, on being indemnified for any expenses and liabilities tbey may have incurred relative thereto and tbat a committee of five be appointed to wait upon the Executive Committee of said Society, for the purpose of requesting the surrender of the paper on the terms above stated.

The following persons were appointed by the chair as the committee named in the foregoing resolutions E. G. Loring, Massachusetts N. P. Rogers, New Hampshire J.

S. Gibbons, New York; Nathan Winslow, Thomas Earle, Pennsylvania. O- Johnson moved to reconsider the resolutions respecting the Emancipator, except the last, which provided for the appointment of a committee for the purpose of giving opportunity to the Editor and the Executive Committee to explain their course, if they should see fit to do so. The motion was carried, and the resolutions, except the last, were laid on tlie table till the afternoon and the assistant secretaries were instructed to notify Mr. Leavitt and the Executive Committee of the fact.

W. L. Garrison, from the Business Committee, presented the following Resolved, That, according to. the Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society, it is the indispensable duty of every member of that society, who has a legal right to vote, to exercise that right by voting at the polls. C.

Burleigh offered the following as a substi tute, which, after discussion, was adopted by a large majority. Resolved, That the Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society does not settle, or attempt to settle, either negatively, the question whether it is or is not the cuty of any of the members of the Society, as such, to vote at the polls. Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M. Afternoon Session.

Met pursuant to adjournment. Prayer by Sumner Lincoln of Massachusetts. On motion of J. P. Bishop, James C.

Jackson, and Wm. AL Chace were added to the Finance commit tee. On motion of J. A. Collins, voted to adjourn Jine ate to-morrow, at 1 clock, P.

M. W. L. Garrison submitted a resolution from the Business Committee, which, after considerable dis cussion, was recommitted to the same committee. W.

L. Garrison presented a resolution relative to the American church, winch was amended and adopted as follows Whereas, the American Church, with the exception of some of its smaller branches, has given its undis guised sanction and support to the system of American Slavery, in the following among other ways, viz 1. Ity profound silence on the sin of slave-holding. 2. By tolerating slave-breeding, slave-trading, and slave-holding in its ministers and members.

3. Bv receiving the avails of the traffic in slaves and the souls of men into the treasuries of its dif ferent benevolent institutions and 4. By its indifference and opposition to the Anti Slavery enterprise Therefore, Resolved, That that Church ought not to be re garded and treated as the Church of Christ, but as the of freedom, humanity and pure religion, so long as it occupies its present position. On motion of O. Johnson, voted to suspend the rule, and to allow Hiram Wilson 15 minutes to speak in relation to the self-emancipated slaves in Canada.

After his remarks, the following resolu tions were unanimously passed Resolved, That the colored population of Upper Canada, having broken their galling chains and sought protection under the Untish crown, though self-col onized by their own consent beyond the boundary of our nation, are not only entitled lo tne warmest, Kindest sympathies of their friends, hut as claimants of jusUco at the hand ot Christian America, they stand hrst among the wronged and uecpiy injured ot tne human race, to whom we can have access. Resolved, That the mission, now in progress for their mental and moral elevation being an anti-prejudice and anti-slavery enterprise, is entitled to the cheerful and liberal patronage of every true-hearted abolitionist. Joshua Leavitt submitted a Protest, on behalf of himself and others, against the resolutions on the subject of independent nominations," which, on motion of Oliver Johnson, was ordered to be published with the proceedings of the Society. W. L.

Garrison, on behalf of the Business Committee, submitted the following, which was adopted i Resolved, That the Colonization Society is slave-holding and pro-slavery combined in organized warfare upon colored liberty that its primary purpose is to deliver slavery from the annoying and hazardous neighborhood of colored freedom, and its secondary object to relieve the colorphobia ofthe North; that its regard for the colored man in this behalf is feigned; for, if it loved him, it would not persecute him even unto the strange city of Liberia and its love for -Africa also is a pretence for love would not people the shores of that ill-fated continent with those it calls 4 who cannot rise to the common level of humanity here amid the full blaze of the gospel, under the sun-light of the land of liberty. The business Committee, thiough its chairman, presented the following resolution, which was adopted. Resolved, That we cannot recognize or sustain any one as a true Christian minister, who is a slaveholder, a defender of slavery or who refuses to testify against Earle, of Pennsylvania, moved the appointment of a committee to draft a petition to Congress on behalf of the Society, praying for the abrogation of all provisions of the Constitution of the United States, which require the people of the whole Union, or of any State, to participate in slaveholding. Carried, and the mover appointed the committee. On motion of J.

A. Collins, voted to appoint a committee of three to confer with those individuals to whom the books and other property of the Society have been pledged to ascertain on what terms they can be redeemed, and report to-morrow morning. N. P. Rogers and S.

Philbrick were appointed, with power to fill vacancies. Adjourned till to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock. FaiDAY Moa.MNo, 8 o'clock. -Met pursuant to adjournment. Francis Jackson in the chair.

Prayer by John Allen of Massachusetts. On motion of J. A. Collins of Massachusetts, voted that a committee of one- from each State be appointed, for the purpose of reporting on the duties, sphere of operations, and the sum of money which will be required to carry on the operations of. this Society for the present year.

The following persons were appointed. S. J. May, Massachusetts R. Hanna, Ohio; G.

W.Benson, Connecticut; B. S. Jones, Pennsylvania R. T. Robinson, Vermont Parker Pillsbury, New-Hampshire Wm.

Aplin, Rhode Island Win. Buffum, New-York Joseph Pa rish, New-Jersey Sarah S. Garret, Delaware Edwin Fussell, Indiana Illi nois. The Finance committee made the following report, which was accepted, and the resolution recommended by them adopted r. The Committee on Finance report That, by a statement of the publishing Pro" scntedto the Executive Committee March 2G, it appears that the total amount ofstock on hand, consisting of books, stereotype plates, together with the amount of debts due from individuals, was due by the Society, leaving a balance in iU favor of April 16, sundry appropriations, were made, amounting in the aggregate to $1200 (more or less) towards defraying the expenses of a delegation to Lon-don, and the payment of the Secretaries' salaries; and on the same date, lhwing resolution was adopted by the Executive Committee Resolved, That the remainder of the Society property be transferred to S.

V. Benedict and Lewis Tappan in trust To secure Air. Rankin's endorsement ($1000.) 2. To secure themselves far their personal liabilities in behalf of the Society. 3.

To provide for the remaining debts and liabilities of the Society. Said -property to be re-transferred to the Executive Committee, or their successors, on security being given for the payment of said debts and liabilities or, in the event of a sale, the balance of the proceeds to be restored in like manner. The property of the Society is now in the hands of S. w. Benedict and 1 appan, subject to tne conditions of the aforesaid resolution.

A portion of the debts has been liquidated by the payment of books at the same rate that they were offered to auxiliary societies viz. at 1-2 the price per hundred. The balance in favor of the Society has therefore been reduced, to what extent the Committee have not ascertained. They report that this arrangement leaves no bal-auce in the Treasury, and exonerates the Society from any present liabilities. How far any can recur, is of course a matter of conjecture.

It is possible there may be some accession to our fund, from the trustees. We recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the Executive Committee be authorized to correspond with 1.. Tappan and S. W.

Benedict, trustees, relative to the property in their hands, and to-assume such responsibilities, in the name of the Society, as may in their judgment secure the most economical disposition of it. On behalf of the Committee J. S. GIBBONS, Chairman. D.

L. Child, ou behalf of the Business Committee, reported the following resolutions, which were adopted. Resolved, That the American Anti-Slavery Society regard with heartfelt interest the design of the Word's about to assemble in London and anticipate from its labors a powerful and blessed influence upon the condition and prospects of the victims of slavery and prejudice, wherever they are found. Resolved, That our beloved friends, William Llotd Gakrisox, Nathaniel Pf.abodt Rogers, Charles Lemox Rimonp, and Lccretia Mott, be and they hereby are appointed Delegates, to represent this Society in the said Convention, and we heartily commend them to the confidence and love of me universal auoimon iraierniiy. Resolved, That the Anti-Slavery enterprise is the cause of universal humanity, and as such legitimately calls together the World's Convention and that this Society trusts that that Convention will fully and practically recognise, in its organization and movements, the equal brotherhood of the entire Human Family, without distinction of color, sex or clime.

A communication was read by the Recording Secretary from the Executive Committee of 'the New-York City A. S. Society, in relation to tlie transfer of the Emancipator, which was referred to the committee app inted on that subject yesterday. Saml. J.

May, from the committee appointed on the sphere of operations and the expenditures ofthe Society for the coming year, submitted the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted Whereas, the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society will require at least the sum of 10,000 dollars to meet the necessary expenditures of the ensuing year therefore. Resolved, That the above named sum be raised by the friends of the cause in the several states, in their due proportions, and in the manner they shall deem best, in view ofthe circumstances of the cause in their several states. Thomas Earle, who was appointed a committee to draft a memorial to Congress, submitted the following, which was adopted To the Srnate and House of Representatives of the United Slates The petition of the American Anti-Slavery Society, sitting at New York city, May 15th, 1840, respectfully prays, that you will be pleased to take measures for abrogating, in a manner consistent with equal and exact justice, all provisions of the Constitution ofthe United States, which are in any manner liable to be so construed an to require of the people ofthe whole Union, or of the States respectively, that they participate in holding human beings in slavery. The committee for tlie nomination of officers submitted their Report, and the following persons were elected officers of the Society for the ensuing year President LINDLY COATES, Pennsylvania. Vice Presidents Samuel Fessenden, Maine George Kent, Nev Hampshire; Rowland T.

Robinson, Vermont Francis Jackson, Massachusetts Peleg Clarke, Rhode Island; John T. Norton, Connecticut Gerrit Smith, Jfew-York; Abraham L. Pennock, Pennstl-rania Anthony Simmons, Jersey; Henry Gibbons, Delaware; A. A. Guthrie, Ohio; Herbert Wil-'liains, Indiana; Robert Stewart, Illinois; Zephania -inie, jonn XMeedles, Maryland.

Board of Managers Nathan Winslow. Samuel F. Brown, David Doten, Aaron Fuller, Maine Timo- 'WT I I II I a na iny jv. uiaisoeii, jonn A. Richardson, Parker Pillsbury, David Millard, JWto Hampshire; Orson S.

Murray, H. F. Leavitt, C. L. Knapp, E.

D. Barber, O. J. Eells, Vermont; Seth Sprague, Wendell Phillips, Ellis Gray Loring, Samuel J.May, Amasa Walker, Edmund Quincy, David Lee Child, Amos Farnsworth, Andrew Robeson, Nathaniel B. Borden, William Bassett, Cyrus P.

Grosvenor, Massachusetts; William Aplin, Thomas Davis, William Adams, John Brown, Joseph Sisson, Jr. Rhode Island; George W.Benson, William' Dolles, Daniel Burgess, Horace Cowles, John Gunn, Connecticut Thomas Van Rensalaer, Richard P. Hunt, Joseph C. Hathaway, Xcv York; Samuel Aaron, Joseph Parrish, Xete Jersey; Edward M. Davis, Robert Purvis, William JacksonfThomas Whitson, Jonathan P.

Magill, Jonas Wyman, Albert L. Post, Wm. Wright, Samuel Webb, William II. Burleigh, Francis J. Lemoyne, Nathan Sugar, Wm.

A. Garrigues, Pennsylvania Robert Hanna, Charles G. Finney, Robert H. Folger, A. F.

Hanna, John Walker, Ohio Thomas Chandler, Michigan James B. Whitcomb, A. B. Brown, Levi Coffin, Elnatban Davis, Indiana. Domestic Cor.

See. J. C. Jackson. Foreign Cor.

Soc. C. C. Burleigh. Rec.

Sec J. C. Hathaway. Treasurer Is aacTT. Hopper.

Executive Committee James S. Gibbons, William Buffum, Thomas Van Raensalaer, Isaae T. Hopper, Charles' Marriott, J. C- Jackson, J. C.

Hathaway, Nathaniel Southard, Luc re ti a Mott, Lydia M. Child, Maria W. Chapman. W. L.

Garrison, from the Business committee, presented the following resolutions, which adopted Resolved, That the Executive Committee, which has been appointed for the ensuing year, be instructed to publish the Annual Report, prepared by the Executive Committee ofthe past year, and that tbev be authorized to append or comments to the said report, if they think proper so to do. Resolved, That the first mentioned Committee be also instructed to prepare an Address to the'Aboli- tionists of the United States upon the present state of the anti-slavery cause, and to publish it in connexion with the said Annual Report. The following resolutions were presented on be half of the business committee, and adopted Resolved, That the American Anti-Slavery Society regards with increased and increasing interest the case ofthe Jtmistad prisoners that they have listened with astonishment and horror to the details of a conspiracy of certain executive officers of the United States to transfer those innocent persons by stratagem to the Island of Cuba, there to be judicially massacred, beforo their case could have a full and final adjudication here. Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to take prompt and vigorous measures for the defence and effectual protection of said prisoners. A communication from George Bourne was received and referred to the Executive Committee.

W. L. Garrison, from the Business Committee, presented a resolution, which was amended, and adopted as follows Resolved, That we look upon the formation of the Massachusetts Abolition Society and the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society with unqualified disapprobation, believing th spirit of new organiza tion, technically so called, to be hostile to that of universal freedom. Resolved, That this Society regrets that the new organization, recently established in this city, has taken a name which is liable to be confounded with that of this Society, and trusts that that assoc lation will perceive tho justice and necessity of altering it. T.

Earle, from the committee on tlie property of the Society, presented the following statement from a W. Benedict, on behalf of the Trustees in whose possession said property now is; which was referred to the Exccotive The trustees will re-convey the property in their hands for the sim of 4500, and for a satisfactory bond to secure the payment of any costs and damages that may result from the suit of Nash vs. Benedict for libel and secure J. Leavitt's and others' bonds of about $1000 forthe Amistad captives, and for any liabilities which may accrue" by virtue of tlie past acts of the committee as agents of tlie American A. S.

Society. S. W. BENEDICT, For the Tnatee E. G.

Loring, from the committee on the transfer ofthe Emancipator, presented a report, appended to which was the following order, which was unanimously adopted: Ordered, That the' Executive Committee be authorized to establish a new Anti-Slavery Journal, to be Dublished in this city, under their supervi sion; and that they be instructed to request of the Executive Committee of the N. Y. City A. S. Society to furnish tlie committee with the names and address of the subscribers to the Emancipator, in order that a free opportunity may be afforded to the abolitionists of this country to elect which of the two Anti-Slavery papers it is their desire to support The following resolution, from the eBusiness oin- mittee, was adopted Resolved, That we respectfully recommend lo abo litionists, that they question all candidates for offices i i e.

embracing legislative auiies, wneiner uiey are iuvora-ble to such change of the constitutions and laws as will abolish all legalized aid to slaveholding; that they publish the answers given, and support no candidate who does not answer in the affirmative. The following resolutions, from the Business Committee, were adopted Resolved, That tbe Committee of this Society ap pointed at its last annual meeting for the purpose of calling the Convention of Abolitionists liolden in Albany during the last summer, in confining tbe call to freemen' alone, assumed a power not delegated to them by the society, a principle at war with the genius of our enterprise, and contrary to all our past action, and thatv their course in. this respect meets our decided disapprobation. Resolved, the Convention assembled under the call alluded to above, in refusing to allow all persons believing in the doctrines of litis Society, to participate in its proceedings, adopted a course equally at warw.ith our principles, and practices and equally obnoxious to the censure of alt the true friends of the slave. A letter from Robert Hanna of Ohio was read and referred to the Executive Committee.

The following resolution was then adopted unanimously Resolved, That the thanks of this Society, bo presented to the chairman of this meeting, for the dignified and impartial manner in which he has presided over its deliberations. On motion of Edmund Quincy, voted that the thanks of this Society be presented to the proprie tors of this house for its use on the present occasion Voted to adjourn Sine ate. SELECTIONS From the Emancipator. Speech of Henry II. Garnet, Jl colored young man, and a member of the Oneida Institute, al the late anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Resolved, That all the rights and immunities of American citizens are justly due to the people of color, who ever have been, and still are willing to contribute their full share to enrich and to defend our common country. In rising, Mr. President, to bespeak the passage of the resolution which I have just read, I cannot hope to express all the feelings of my heart. I would point this assembly to the early history of our I would invite Americans- to examine anew the foundations of our republican institutions. I would remind you, sir, of dear-bought privileges said to be held out to all, but which are notwithstanding denied to immortal millions.

I would hold up before you covenants written with blood, that might have been placed in the ark of the nation's glory, but which have been seized by tlie oppressor's hand and torn to pieces by his scourge. I would call you to listen to the shrill sound of the planta tion horn, that comes leaping Irom tlie (South, and rinding an echo even among our northern hills. In a word, I would direct your attention to a pile of wrong, and national disgrace, and shame, as high as heaven. Sir, the foundation of this government was form ed of the most solid materials. Those who first laid their hands to the work of building up in this new world an edifice within whose walls the most extensive liberty should abide, were men who had no communion with tyranny and oppression.

It must ever animate and cheer the bosom of the true American patriot to dwell upon the moral sublimity of the Spirit of the pilsrrims. a snirit which led them to break asunder tlie ties that bound them to kindred and country, and to fix their dwellings, and to throw their destinies in the midst of the trackless wilderness. While speaking of those men, the ton true of the orator will never become ineloquent. The strains of the poet that shall entwine their deeds in song shall never vex the ear of patriotism. As they launched into tlie deep, their very sails were swelled by the breath of liberty.

As pure in motive and as resistless in spirit as the waves that bore them thither, they laid the broad foundation of republican institutions. It was then. sir. that new and astonishing truths in regard to the principles of iioerty were developed. Acting under the influ ence of these truths, our fathers pressed forward with holy and patriotic zeal in the road to that national independence which the revolution of seventy-six opened to them.

Of tlie wonderful perseverance of the ceaseless love of liberty, religious, political, and social, which regulated their actions, who is so base as to complain Of the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence, we find no fault. For that instrument declares, 'that all men are created free and We would not question the 'sincerity of purpose, ana aevouon to freedom, which seemed to wieia me sworas ot most ot the lathers ofthe revolution. But we complain, in the most unqualified terms, of the base conduct of their degenerate sons. If, when taking into consideration the circumstances with which the revolutionists were surrounded, and the weakness of human nature, we can possibly pardon them for neglecting our brethren's rights if. in the first dawning of the day of liberty, every part of the patriot's duty did not appear plain, now that we have reached the mid-day of our national career now that there are ten thousand suns flashing light upon our pathway, this nation is guilty of the basest hypocrisy in withholding the rights due to muuons oi American citizens.

It is not necessary, Mr. President, for me to at tempt to mark out the grounds upon which is built the right of American citizenship. Let it be what it may, upon it the colored inhabitant of this coun try stand. -It is with pride that I remember that in the earli est attempts to establish democracy in this hemisphere, colored men stood by the side of your fathers and shared with them the toils of the revolution. When freedom, that had been chased over half the world, at last thought she had here found a shelter.

11 1 1 I 1 4 anu neia oui ner nanus ior protection, the tearful eye of the colored man, in many instances, mixed with pity upon her tattered garments, and ran to her renei. juany ieu in ner cetence. The grateful soil received them affectionately into its bosom. No monumental piles distinguish their dreamless beds. Scarcely an inch on the page of history has been appropriated to their memory.

Yet truth will give them a share ofthe fame that was reaped upon the-field of Lexington and Bunker HilL Truth will affirm that they participated in the immortal honor that adorned the brow of the illustrious Washington. In the last war, also, colored citizens rendered signal service to the country. So anxious were they to defend their native shores from invasion, at the battle of ew Orleans, that they did not stop to consult the safety of General Jackson's cotton bas. In order to show to you their ardor in that struggle, permit me to recite to you the words of the "late President of the United States. I knew well hnw you loved your country, and that you had, ai well as ourselves, to defend what man holds most dear, parents relations, wives, children and property.

You have done more than I expected. In addition to those previous qualities I beforo knew you to possess, I found, moreover. amonr von a noble enthusiasm which leads to the performance of great me language oi siavenouieTe wnen ihey would have colored men stand in the If they are forgotten by history if they vl not mentioned in tlie halls of Congressif preja denies them a place in tlie srrateful Americans in general, i trust iney wm atlec, remembered amid the cloister of the Sir, in consideration of the toils of bor father ty both wars, we claim the right of American ccis ship. We claim it, but shall we ever errjoyi Our ancestors fought and bled for it, but I wiaj-I it with this assembly to decide whether they fi, and bled as wise men or as fools. Thev Cu to their rest, many of them with their brows marked with wounds received in fighting the" bttt of Liberty, while their backs were furrowed by tl cruel scourge.

Unfortunate men They knewal that their children were be immolated upon altars of slavery altars erected upon their rarr graves. They little thought that the Power ttftsL which they were fighting would one day emancipn all its slaves, while their own country would nme, jail her power, and make her mightiest effort toll oat the few scattering stars that linger in the k-' zon of their posterity's hopes. i But what shall be. said shall we blame tUa men, and say that they slew their own intercut No, sir, if the revolution was right, they have nobly, and will stand approved ot heaven in ka great day. For, seeing this self same soil whkj, now yields the bitter fruits of slavery in such abq dance, in days that have passed, yielded other fhtN we ought to blame the culture, not the soii In the exercise of religion, Mr.

President, is the salt that has kept tlie nation from mora! patn faction, the people of color have rendered their fj. low-citizens some small assistance. Our reli-j truly has taught us to cling to that charity sufiereth long, and endureth all things. The tnefc. fulness of the words oQjthe British statesman, tW religion is the basis of civil society, is almost t.

versally acknowledged. And the spirit of ourbj. tutions lays it down as a primary duty of Americt to acknowledge the moral government of God it i) our The greatest blessings which we kait received as a nation, have been given unto as account of the little piety that has been fwi among; us. And no one will say that there hai been now and then a pious soul among our people, although there is enough sin among ns to excite tin 'fairs ofthe Christian world. The spirit of Christ), anity, while it is as extensive as the universe ft desire to do good to man, is also as impartial the light of heaven.

It does not stop to eoasuftr the complexion of its adorers. No fervent prejer of the righteous has ever fallen to the earth. No stow brought up to build altars to God, by hands however humble, has ever been rejected. lie who bearcth the ravens when they cry, and feedeth the lion when he ioars for lack of fixxl, most assuredl forgets not the petitions' of his chosen people. Religion, then, is the preservation of our instiia.

tions. It is tlie mighty pillar which holds the well-begun structure of this government, whici I trust it will ultimately finish. Colored men karj been with you in this labor. We are with yon atij and will be with you forever, even bora worship in the earthly temples of our Lord. If tlx finally fall, as did the churches of Asia; on tccoajt of their sins, without being guilty of contributing to their destruction, let us be buried beneath toe ruins.

We wish not to survive their overthrow. 1 Sir, the slaveholder looks upon his victim though he were an heir of immortality. TW apologists of oppression disregard his tears lad blood. Church and State, the one holding up i Christianity, falsely so called, immersed in blood, and the other endeavoring to shield itself behind law, have united in platting a scourge with waicl they have whipped him away from the highest privileges, and driven him into tlie most hopeless outness. But from the gloom of tlie dungeon, prijn fervent, righteous prayers, have ascended," in answet to which are tlie blessings that we now enjoj.

Among the slaves of tlie South have been fensi some of the Lots, in consideration of whose -tuppli. cations the Lord of Hosts has turned back the fiery waves of tlie vengeance which a disregard of Ha Jaw in high places has justly merited. Sir, if the privilege of American citizenship it granted in return for services done in contributing to tlie agricultural prosperity of tlie country, wka class of Americans stands above the colored iohtW itants of the soil Who is it that will deny tint they here stand pre-eminently entitled to the ble ings of life and liberty Let America blush wii eternal shame, and hang her guilty head, wbeaiiii fearlessly asserted, that many of our poor, uufbrta nate females, bleeding under, the lash of monster, have been and still are the tillers of the land. Froa the-Chesapeake Bay to the Sabine River, there not a foot of cultivated ground that has not sroiM beneath the hard hand of the dark American, the middle States also, we have contributed our proportionate share in tilling the soiL But the South, that points to her cotton fields and sugar plantations, that luxuriates in her orange groves fkannl by her spicy breezes, that exults in the pride ober mighty rivers, the South that boasts of her supported hospitality, and manages to scare half tbt w-orld by the blaze of her chivalry, and who htVr turn is frightened into hysterics at the appeartaci of that awful raw-head-and-bloody-bones that '1 continually groaning, can't take care of theroseheV sho is indebted to us for every breath of agrkulta-al prosperity that she draws. Hear slaveboldes themselves on the subject.

If we emancipate slaves, say they, we are undone. Without stoppipf to show the fallacy of a part of their doctrine, I wculd have you notice the bare fact set forth ia this language, so far as the agricultural interestirf the South are concerned, tho slave is her all in iU-And, indeed, not only in the labor of the fteli tlie people of color her bone and sinew, her lift blood, for we are told by one who knows all ibo the wholesome and industrious influence of slavery that southern republicans, in case emancipatKi should take place, would be put to their as to how their boots should be blacked. If the dwellers beyond the Potomac have thing to boast of, it is the wealth of their fi--J is here among the rocks and valleys of the Norta, that the trades display their ten thousand impl ments. The very clothing in which these desk in the souls of men are dressed, and the carriage which they ride, are made at the North. The bo iv knives which they flourish in Quixotic gkcfc ri- 1 tits oic uiaiiuiuc.ureu iu iew-iorn, or somewwa -among innocent northerners.

The whips that bury in tlie quivering flesh of their prostrate ricO are platted on the banks of the Passaic. Sines tt first captive was landed on the old DominionKe ored men have been toiling to make the Soot2 she is to-day. only in war, and in tlie exercise of and in promoting the agricultural interests country, have colored men aeairted yon, but vej have also contributed greatly in supporting ths ence and literature the South. For poar.T and Dick are sold far away, in order that my lord Frederick William may be sent to colleen. Sir, it has been shown, that we assisted the days that tried men's souls.

We have i with you on the footstool of our Heavenly F- and have supplicated with you for blessings ciil ligious, and political! And may God grant may never be behind any class of our fellow-t zens in this respect. In slavery we have PTS aided in turning your wildernesses into irui- fields. Give us our freedom, remunerate as for" labor, and protect our family altars, and, byC" blessings of Heaven, we will help make thoss f3" ful fields to blossom and bloom as Eden. With every fibre of our hearts entwined aw" our country, and with an indefeasible detenaias-j" to obtain the possession ofthe natural and ble rights of American citizens, we demand for tbe wrongs we have suffered, and ask for ti toration of our birth-right privileges. 1-- would not look to man alone for these thing.

Lord is our strength. Avenge tby plundered poor, oh Lord! But not with fire, but not with sword Avenge our wrongs, our chains, our sigbV The misery in our children's eyes But not with sword, no, not with Chastise our conntry locnatry 1 Nor let them feel thine heavier Ire Chastise them not in poverty Though cold in soul as coffined Their hearts a tearless, dead, and drjf Let them in outraged mercy trust, -t And hnd mat mercy tucy ueuy. freedom, thanks be unto the Most High, is Yet I am not, nay, cannot be entirely fi6: I 1 ior my oreinren as a man am uou as a ISothing but emancipating mj tf ren can set me at liberty. If that earthly blessings, 'prized above all price, car found in my own native land, then I must be a ger to it during my pilgrimage here be. i I speak in the behalf of my enslaved bret the.

nominally free. is, Mr. President, a or ui4 rvf fiwodnm which nn rrwirtnl ran tOCK.