le zeal of that powerful and benevolent advocate for
the rights of the Africans, and his great expense in the
performance of his labours, we think ourselves bound in duty, to
contribute our aid for the general circulation of his interesting
history. We therefore earnestly recommend that work to your
patronage, and we hope you will cheerfully employ such means, as
you may think effectual for promoting its sale.[12]

_To Society for promoting abolition._

IN discharging the customary duty of addressing you, we have
great satisfaction in stating, that the business of the
Convention has been conducted, throughout, with the utmost
cordiality.

We cannot, however, forbear the expression of our sincere regret,
that so few societies have been represented in this Convention.
When we contemplate the interesting magnitude of the cause in
which we have unitedly and voluntarily embarked--when we consider
the solid and obvious advantages, which have hitherto been
derived, to the friends of humanity, from a free and personal
interchange of opinion and from unison of action, we confidently
trust that trifling impediments will not be suffered to interpose
in the fulfilment of our duty. We therefore, in that freedom
which becomes the advocates of truth and justice, do most
earnestly and affectionately recommend a more zealous attention
to this important point, in order that the succeeding Convention
may be more fully attended. Much has been accomplished, but, when
we remember that it has been officially announced by the late
census that nearly twelve hundred thousand of our fellow beings
remain in a state of abject bondage in our deluded country, it
surely will not, cannot be denied, that much, very much, remains
yet to be done. You have put your hands to the plough--look not
back till ye shall have accomplished the end. You have commenced
the wrestling, cease not your hold till ye shall have obtained
the prize.

While against the oppressor, we plead the cause of the
oppressed--While we invite the unhappy slave to a patient and
Christian submission to his condition--and urge on his legalized
master a humane exercise of his power--While we feel ourselves
bound, by all honourable and lawful means, to protect those whom