Volume II Part 9 (1/2)

PENNSYLVANIA.

_Pittsburgh_--John B. Vashon.

_Philadelphia_--John Bowers, William Whipper, J. C. Morel, Benjamin Paschal, F. A. Hinton.

_Carlisle_--John Peck.

_Lewistown, Miffin County_--Samuel Johnson.

NEW YORK.

_New York City_--William Hamilton, Thomas L. Jennings, Henry Sipkins, Philip A. Bell.

_Brooklyn_--James Pennington.

DELAWARE.

_Wilmington_--Joseph Burton, Jacob Morgan, Abm. D. Shad, William Johnson, Peter Gardiner.

MARYLAND.

_Baltimore_--Samuel Elliott, Robert Cowley, Samuel Hiner.

NEW JERSEY.

_Gloucester_--Thomas D. c.o.xsin, Thomas Banks.

_Trenton_--Aaron Roberts.

Ma.s.sACHUSETTS.

_Boston_--Hosea Easton.

_New Bedford_--Nathan Johnson.

CONNECTICUT.

_Hartford_--Paul Drayton.

_New Haven_--Scipio C. Augustus.

RHODE ISLAND.

_Providence_--Ichabod Northrop.

On the following day the convention adjourned to the ”First African Presbyterian Church.” The following report was adopted:

”_Resolved_, That in the opinion of this Committee, the plan suggested by the first General Convention, of purchasing land or lands in Upper Canada, for the avowed object of forming a settlement in that province, for such colored persons as may choose to emigrate there, still merits and deserves our united support and exertions; and further, that the appearances of the times, in this our native land, demand an immediate action on that subject. Adopted.

”_Resolved_, That in the opinion of this committee, we still solemnly and sincerely protest against any interference, on the part of the American Colonization Society, with the free colored population in these United States, so long as they shall countenance or endeavor to use coercive measures (either directly or indirectly) to colonize us in any place which is not the object of our choice. And we ask of them respectfully, as men and as Christians, to cease their unhallowed persecutions of a people already sufficiently oppressed, or if, as they profess to have our welfare and prosperity at heart, to a.s.sist us in the object of our choice.

”_Resolved_, That this committee would recommend to the members of this Convention, to discountenance, by all just means in their power, any emigration to Liberia or Hayti, believing them only calculated to distract and divide the whole colored family.”