LEWIS TAPPAN, }
JOSHUA LEAVITT, } Members
SAMUEL E. CORNISH, } of the
SIMEON S. JOCELYN, } Executive
THEODORE S. WRIGHT, } Committee.

New-York, September 3, 1835."

The other document to which he had referred, was an "Address" adopted
at "A meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, duly held in
Boston, on Monday, August 17, A. D., 1835," signed by W. L. Garrison,
and twenty-seven highly respectable citizens of Boston, on behalf of
the Massachusetts Society, and others concurring generally in its
principles. He (Mr. T.) would only quote a few brief passages.

"We are charged with violating, or wishing to violate, the
Constitution of the United States. What have we done, what
have we said to warrant this charge? We have held public
meetings, and taken other usual means of convincing our
countrymen that slave-holding is sin, and, like all sin,
ought to be, and can be, immediately abandoned. We have said,
in the words of the Declaration of Independence, that "ALL
MEN are created equal," and that liberty is an inalienable
gift of God to every man. We know of no clause in the
Constitution which forbids our saying this. We appeal to the
calm judgment of the community, to decide, in view of recent
events, whether the measures of the friends, or those of the
opposers of abolition, are more justly chargeable with the
violation of the Constitution and laws."

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"The foolish tale, that we would encourage amalgamation by
intermarriage between the whites and blacks, though often
refuted, as often re-appears. We shall content ourselves with
a simple denial of this charge. We challenge our opponents to
point to one of our publications in which such intermarriages
are recommended. One of our objects is to prevent the
amalgamation now going on, so far as can be done, by placing
one million of the females of this country under the
protection of law."

"We are accused of interfering in the domestic concerns of
the southern States. We would ask those, who charge this, to
explain precisely what they mean by "interference." If, by
interference be meant any attempt to legislate for the
southern States, or to compe