that
country which gave us birth!

"In conclusion, the Convention would remind our brethren that
knowledge is power, and to that end, we call on you to sustain
and support, by all honorable, energetic, and necessary means,
those presses which are devoted to our instruction and elevation,
to foster and encourage the mechanical arts and sciences among
our brethren, to encourage simplicity, neatness, temperance, and
economy in our habits, taking due care always to give the
preference to the production of freemen wherever it can be had.
Of the utility of a General Fund, the Convention believes there
can exist but one sentiment, and that is for a speedy
establishment of the same. Finally, we trust our brethren will
pay due care to take such measures as will ensure a general and
equal representation in the next Convention

[Signed] "BELFAST BURTON,
"JUNIUS C. MOREL,
"WILLIAM WHIPPER,
"_Publishing Committee_."

Encouraged by the good results that followed the first convention,
another one was called, and assembled in Philadelphia, at Benezet
Hall, Seventh Street, June 4, 1832. The following delegates were
admitted to seats in the convention:

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. Coxsin, Thomas Banks.

_Trenton_--Aaron Roberts.

MASSACHUSETTS.

_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