tates, to
improve the character and condition of the free people of
color, to inform and correct public opinion in relation to
their situation and rights, and obtain for them equal civil
and political rights and privileges with the whites."

He would now pass on to the formation of the National Anti-Slavery
Society, in December, 1833, and submit all that was material in the
"CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY."

ARTICLE 2. The object of this Society is the entire abolition
of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each
State in which Slavery exists has, by the Constitution of the
United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to
its abolition in that State, it shall aim to convince all our
fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed to their
understandings and consciences, that slave-holding is a
heinous crime in the sight of God; and that the duty, safety,
and best interest of all concerned, require its immediate
abandonment, without expatriation. The Society will also
endeavor, in a constitutional way, to influence Congress, to
put an end to the domestic slave trade; and to abolish
slavery in all those portions of our common country which
come under its control, especially in the district of
Columbia, and likewise to prevent the extension of it to any
State that may hereafter be admitted to the Union.

ARTICLE 3. This Society shall aim to elevate the character
and condition of the people of color, by encouraging their
intellectual, moral, and religious improvement, and by
removing public prejudice; that thus they may, according to
their intellectual and moral worth, share an equality with
the whites of civil and religious privileges; but the Society
will never in any way countenance the oppressed in
vindicating their rights by resorting to physical force.

ARTICLE 4. Any person who consents to the principles of this
Constitution, who contributes to the funds of this Society,
and is not a slave-holder, may be a member of this Society,
and shall be entitled to a vote at its meetings."

He would next read the "Preamble" to the Constitution of the
New-Hampshire State Anti-Slavery Society:

"The most high God hath made of one blood all the families of
man to dwell on the face of all the earth, and hath endowed
all alike with the same inalien