iety, adopted the following resolution:

"_Resolved_, That as information, and an unreserved comparison of
one another's sentiments, relative to the important cause in
which we are severally engaged, are our principal objects; and as
the persons appointed by the Virginia Society are not citizens of
that State, nor members of that Society, to admit them, or,
according to their proposals for us to elect others as their
representatives, would be highly improper."

The president was directed to acknowledge the receipt of the
letter, to inform the Virginia Society of the above resolution,
and to thank them for the important information contained in the
letter.

Benjamin Rush, William Dunlap, Samuel Sterett, William Rawle, and
Warner Mifflin, were appointed a committee to report the objects
proper for the consideration of the convention, and the best
plan for carrying the same into execution. Under the direction of
this committee, memorials were prepared to be sent to the
legislatures of the several States which had not abolished
slavery; a memorial to Congress asking for the enactment of a law
making the use of vessels and men in the slave-trade a penal
offense; and an address to the citizens of the United States,
already printed in a note, pp. 60-63. It was also voted "to
recommend to the different Abolition societies to appoint
delegates to meet in convention, at Philadelphia, on the first
Wednesday of January, 1795, and on the same day in every year
afterward, until the great objects of their original association
be accomplished."

I was so fortunate as to find, also, in the New York Historical
Society's library, the minutes of the conventions of 1795 and
1797. The convention of 1795 met in the City Hall, at
Philadelphia, January 7, and continued in session till the 14th
of that month. The societies represented, and delegates, were as
follows:

_Rhode Island Society_--Theodore Foster. The credentials from the
president of the society stated that George Benson was also
appointed to represent the society; but he did not appear.

_Connecticut Society_--Jonathan Edwards, Uriah Tracy, Zephaniah
Swift.

_New York Society_--John Murray, Jr., William Johnson, Lawrence
Embree, William Dunlap, William Walton Woolsey.

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