ersey Society_--James Sloan, Franklin Davenport. Other
delegates appointed, Joseph Bloomfield, William Coxe, Jr., and
John Wistar, did not appear. It was explained to the convention
that the absence of Mr. Bloomfield was occasioned by sickness.

_Pennsylvania Society_--William Rawle, Robert Patterson, Benjamin
Rush, Samuel Coates, Caspar Wistar, James Todd, Benjamin Say.

_Washington (Pa.) Society_--Thomas Scott, Absalom Baird, Samuel
Clark.

_Delaware Society_--Richard Bassett, John Ralston, Allen McLane,
Caleb Boyer.

_Wilmington (Del.) Society_--Cyrus Newlin, James A. Bayard,
Joseph Warner, William Poole.

_Maryland Society_--Samuel Sterett, Adam Fonerdon, Joseph
Townsend, Joseph Thornburgh, George Buchanan, John Bankson,
Philip Moore.

_Chester-town (Md.) Society_--Edward Scott, James Houston.

Dr. Benjamin Rush was elected President; Walter Franklin,
Secretary; and Joseph Fry, Door-keeper.

Jonathan Edwards, William Dunlap, Caspar Wistar, Cyrus Newlin,
Caleb Boyer, Philip Moore, and James Houston were appointed the
committee on business. Memorials were prepared, and adopted by
the convention, to be sent to the legislatures of South Carolina
and Georgia, as both States still persisted in the importation of
slaves. An address to the Abolition Societies of the United
States was also adopted, the spirit of which may be inferred from
the following extract:

"When we have broken his chains, and restored the African to the
enjoyment of his rights, the great work of justice and
benevolence is not accomplished. The new-born citizen must
receive that instruction, and those powerful impressions of moral
and religious truths, which will render him capable and desirous
of fulfilling the various duties he owes to himself and to his
country. By educating some in the higher branches, and all in the
useful parts of learning, and in the precepts of religion and
morality, we shall not only do away the reproach and calumny so
unjustly lavished upon us, but confound the enemies of truth, by
evincing that the unhappy sons of Africa, in spite of the
degrading influence of slavery, are in nowise inferior to the
more fortunate inhabitants of Europe and America."

The fourth annual convention of the Abolition Societies of the
Unite