f a large state in which slavery prevails,
and is himself probably a possessor of slaves.

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The Preamble and Resolutions having been unanimously adopted by the
Meeting, committees were appointed to draught articles of association,
&c.

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The following are the two first articles of the Constitution:--

"Article I.--The Society shall be called 'The American Society for
Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States.'

"Article II.--The object to which its attention is to be
exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for
colonizing (with their consent) the free people of colour residing
in our country, in Africa, or such other places as Congress shall
deem most expedient."

In pursuance of this object, a Board of Managers have been organized; of
which Bushrod Washington, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States, has been appointed president. This body have submitted
their views to the Congress, by a Memorial.--And as this Memorial
embraces subjects which concern, more or less, every description of
population in the United States, its circulation cannot, perhaps, be too
widely extended.

_In the House of Representatives, Jan. 14._

Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

To the honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress assembled:

The Memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the
"American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the
United States,"

Respectfully shews--

THAT your Memorialists are delegated by a numerous and highly
respectable association of their fellow citizens, recently
organized at the seat of government, to solicit Congress to aid,
with the power, the patronage, and the resources of the country,
the great and beneficial object of their institution; an object
deemed worthy of the earnest attention, and of the strenuous and
persevering exertions, as well of every patriot, in whatever
condition of life, as of every enlightened, philanthropic, and
practical statesman.

It is now reduced to be a maxim, equally approved in philosophy and
politics, that the existence of distinct and separate casts or
classes, forming exceptions to the general system of polity adapt