nderstood; the cause has suffered undeserved reproach in the
minds of some of our fellow citizens, and heavy expenses have
been incurred in the unfavorable termination of suits undertaken
without sufficient evidence, and with too much precipitation.

Being persuaded that no favourable opportunity should be lost for
impressing the public mind with the iniquity of slavery, and the
varied vices and evils, which are incident to it, in all their
forms and consequences, we entreat such of you as have not chosen
Standing Committees, charged with the publication of extracts and
fugitive pieces, on this very interesting subject, to adopt the
measure. Its utility has been fully proven by experience, which
is the best of wisdom. To those societies who have derived
advantage from the practice, we recommend a diligent and habitual
attention to the subject.

We observe, with much sensibility and regret, that the inhuman
and wicked practice of kidnapping, still prevails in our country,
and that several cases of it have occurred since the meeting of
the last Convention. Was there no other object to claim the
ardent sympathy, and the active opposition of our associated
brethren, than this alone, it would of itself be sufficiently
interesting and momentous to justify an union of all our powers,
and a vigorous combination of all our efforts, to resist this
single enormity, this cruel and savage violation of the rights of
our fellow-men. We request that you will, in your succeeding
communications to the Convention, furnish accurate accounts of
the several cases which may come under your notice, and that you
will detail with precision, such of them as may be attended with
particular circumstances of atrocity. The perpetrators should be
known and exposed to public odium. Their names whenever detected,
should be circulated throughout the continent, through the medium
of the public prints; and no offender, who can be brought to
punishment, should be suffered to escape the just penalty of his
transgressions.

The discouragements which prevail among the friends and advocates
of the African race, especially to the southward, have excited
the anxious concern of the Convention. While we have nine hundred
thousand slaves in our country--while we have the strongest