njamin Pascal, and James C. Cornish, in behalf
of the citizens of Philadelphia, calling a convention of the
colored delegates from the several States, to meet on the 20th
day of September, 1830, to devise plans and means for the
establishment of a colony in Upper Canada, under the patronage of
the general Convention, then called.

"That Convention met, pursuant to public notice, and recommended
the formation of a parent society, to be established, with
auxiliaries in the different towns where they had been
represented in _general_ convention, for the purpose of raising
moneys to defray the object of purchasing a colony in the
province of Upper Canada, for those who should hereafter wish to
emigrate thither, and that immediately after its organization, a
corresponding agent should be appointed to reside at or near the
intended purchase.

"Our then limited knowledge of the manners, customs, and
privileges, and rights of aliens in Upper Canada, together with
the climate, soil, and productions thereof, rendered it necessary
to send out agents to examine the same, who returned with a
favorable report, except that citizens of these United States
could not purchase lands in Upper Canada, and legally transfer
the same to other individuals.

"The Convention resolved to reassemble on the first Monday in
June, 1831, during which time the order of the Convention had
been carried into operation, relative to establishing Societies
for the promotion of said object; and the sum and total of their
proceedings were, that the Convention recommended to the colored
people generally, when persecuted as were our brethren in Ohio,
to seek an Asylum in Upper Canada. During which time,
information having been received that a part of the white
inhabitants of said province had, through prejudice and the fear
of being overburthened with an ejected population, petitioned the
provincial parliament to prohibit the general influx of colored
population from entering their limits, which threw some
consternation on the prospect. The Convention did not wholly
abandon the subject, but turned its attention more to the
elevation of our people in this, our native home.

"The recent occurrences at the South have swelled the tide of
prejudice until it has almost revoluti