joices in the hopes which the formation of the British India Society has created. Its effect cannot fail to be great in aid of your efforts for the extinction of slavery in America, and to procure its termination throughout the world. God grant that men of all nations may stimulate each other in earnest labors to that end. My heart rejoices in the prospect of their going forth in hope and endeavors for the future, forgetting what is past. Forgetting past misunderstandings, and putting aside every extraneous and foreign object, let all advance together to the attainment of your great and common purpose, which demands united and zealous exertions.

Mr. GARRISON inquired of Professor Adam, if the slaves in India were attached to the soil?

Mr. ADAM. They are, for the most part, domestic slaves in Bengal and in western and northen Hindostan; and, generally speaking, among the native proprietors, to sell such, is considered disgraceful. When, however, men voluntarily become slaves by selling their liberty to their creditors, these may be sold, and are sold, without hesitation. In the South of India, there may be perhaps 200,000 agrestic slaves, who may be disposed of by their masters. The separation of slaves from the soil, is an innovation upon the old customs of the country, introduced by the British Government. Previous to the establishment of the British power, these slaves were adscripti gleba. But for arrears of revenue, and in the process of executing the decrees of the India courts, the prac tice of separating them, acording to the dictates of interest and convenience, was introduced, and has greatly increased. A knowledge of all these things might be made to tell most powerfully against the East India Company.

Mr. CHILD inquired to what reasons it was to be attributed, that the apprenticeship act did not take effect in India, as was at first supposed?

Mr. ADAM. The rule is, that no act of the Imperial Parliament shall apply to it, unless India be especially mentioned. The last Charter Act to the East India Company expired in 1833; and in the renewal of the act at that time, there was an order or recommendation that an inquiry should be instituted into slavery in India, and that it should be extinguished as speedily as possible. This provision of the Imperial Parliment has been neglected. Inquiries may perhaps have been made, but nothing at all has, up to the present time, been done.

Mr. CHILD. I recollect to have heard it stated, that a clause in the act of 1833, securing the abolition of slavery in India, did actually pass the Commons, but was thrown out in the House of Lords.

Mr. ADAM. That was done by the Duke of Wellington's amendment, which changed the time specified to an indefinite periso soon as such extinction shall be practicable and safe."

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Mr. GARRISON. I recollect to have heard Mr. O'Connell say, in Exeter Hall, that by a clause of five lines, more than a hundred

millions of British Indian subjects had been emancipated. I be lieve it was not until two or three years afterwards, that British abolitionists found, to their suprise, that it was not so.

The eulogium just passed upon our beloved friend, George Thompson, fell gratefully on my ear. Indeed, that name can never be mentioned among us, without exciting the deepest emotions of affectionate admiration. George Thompson always has made himself a martyr to the interests of his race. After the emancipation of 800,000 slaves, in which his gigantic efforts were so greatly in. strumental, one would think he might have sought repose. Not so. He can never pause while a bondman remains on earth. He has now a field where his mighty energies will be tasked to the uttermost. I have been unable to read his recent powerful lectures on this subject, without feeling pangs of horror take possession of my soul at the scenes and the facts they reveal. There is a broad and beautiful region,-populous and fertile, and blessed with the bounty of nature in her most lavish mood; and yet its inhabitants are perishing-perishing by the 100,000, of famine! ground to the dust under British exaction-their all, even themselves, seized upon and sacrificed. I beg leave to give notice, Mr. President, that the Lectures of Mr. Thompson on British India are now in the press, and will soon be ready for sale, at the low price of 50 cents per copy: and I hope that all who feel an interest in the abolition of American slavery, as well as of slavery in India, will take the first opportunity to read them. It will show them how intimately the labors of abolitionists throughout the world are connected If the British cotton market can be supplied from India, there will be an end of American slavery.

Mr. MELLEN expressed the opinion, that the operations of the British India Society would powerfully react upon the system of American slavery, and presented some statistics and papers of the British India Society in support of that opinion.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

W. L. Garrison, in behalf of the Business Committee, offered the following resolution, which, after being advocated by John Pierpont, was adopted.

Resolved, That Slavery always does, and from the constitution of man always must, impoverish, rather than enrich the community in which it exists; and therefore, that the anti-slavery enterprise must be regarded with favor, not by Christian moralists alone, but also and equally by the enlightened political economist.

S. J. May, from the Business Committee, submitted a resolution, on the subject of the weekly contribution plan, which was supported by S. J. May, I. Morton, of Plymouth, J. Smith, of Andover, W. Jenkins, of Andover, E. Thompson, of Lynn, J. A. Collins, Sumner Lincoln, of Gardner, and Mr. Reed; and pending the discussion, the meeting adjourned to 2 1-2 o'clock, P. M.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Met pursuant to adjournment. Prayer was offered by E. Jack

son.

The resolution under discussion at the time of adjournment, was again taken up, and after remarks from Sarah C. Sanborn, Greely Hannaford, and S. Palmer, was adopted, as follows:

Resolved, That the plan of weekly contributions recommended by the Board of Managers, is, in our opinion, the best ever devised to equalize the expenditures incident to the prosecution of our enterprise, and to keep our treasury constantly sup plied with the necessary funds; and that, therefore, this Society earnestly commends it to the immediate adoption of all its auxiliaries.

W. L. Garrison, for the Business Committee, submitted the following resolution, which, after the reading of the letter of Charles Fitch by W. L. Garrison, and remarks by A. H. Folsom and S. Palmer, was unanimously adopted:

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Whereas, a letter has been forwarded by the Rev. Charles Fitch to the Corresponding Secretary of this Society, and read at this meeting, deeply lamenting his participancy in the Clerical Appeal, and finding in it occasion for shame, and selfloathing, and deep humiliation before God and man," and confessing that the only object he had in view in every thing which he did relative to that Appeal, he now sees was "nothing better than a selfish and most wicked desire to gain thereby the good opinion of such men as he supposed would be pleased by it;"—therefore,

Resolved, That this Society feels deeply affected in view of this noble and christian confession, and cordially receives into full fellowship our repentant brother Fitch, assuring him that, in thus abasing himself, he has prepared the way for his exaltation to the summit of moral grandeur in the eyes of all good men; and that his return will fill the breasts of abolitionists with more joy than the accession of many new converts to their ranks.

A resolution, from the Business Committee, relating to a political party, was submitted. Seth Sprague, W. Jenkins, of Andover, Geo. Russell, of Kingston, N. B. Borden, Geo. Bradburn, W. L. Garrison, H. A. Morse, of Holliston, Rodney French, of New Bedford, and D. Henshaw, of Lynn, spoke to it After being slightly amended, N. B. Borden proposed a substitute, which was opposed by Messrs. Garrison and Bradburn, and was withdrawn by the mover. Pending the discussion of the original resolution, the meeting adjourned to 6 1-2 o'clock.

EVENING SESSION.

Met according to adjournment. Prayer was offered by S. Palmer, of Scituate. The General Agent read a letter from N. P. Rogers, of New Hampshire.

Charles Nye, of Sandwich, was excused from serving as one of the Vice Presidents, and Josiah Gifford, of Sandwich, was chosen instead.

The resolution under discussion at the adjournment, was taken up and laid on the table for the present.

S. J. May, for the Business Committee, presented a resolution, on which animated remarks were made by S. J. May, and J. C.

Jackson, Sumner Lincoln, of Gardner, Wm. Ladd, J. N. Buffum, and J. A. Collins,-when it passed as follows:

Resolved, That the Abolitionists of this Commonwealth are under solemn obligations to put their hands in their pockets, and relieve the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society of its embarrassments immediately; and that they ought to consider themselves as unfaithful to the cause of the slave, if they fail to do it.

On motion of J. C. Jackson, the following persons, J. A. Collins, J. N. Buffum, P. C. Pettibone, Geo. Foster and T. P. Ryder, were appointed a Committee to obtain subscriptions in this meeting.

W. L. Garrison, in behalf of the Business Committee, proposed the following resolution, which, being briefly spoken to by J. C. Jackson, passed:

Resolved, That we regard the refusal of the Harrisburg Convention to nominate Henry Clay as a candidate for the Presidency as a signal and glorious triumph of truth over error, of liberty over slavery; and we believe the course of that man on the subject of slavery, in consequence of the rising spirit of freedom in our midst, has completely blighted all his fondly cherished hopes of becoming the Chief Magistrate of this nation; and when he comes to review his past life, if there is one thing more than another, which will give a bitterness to disappointed hopes, and a keen sense of anguish for his frequent violations of truth, and justice, and humanity, it will be the deep and indelible disgrace which will ever attach to him for his support of the foul system of American slavery.

The following resolutions from the Business Committee were unanimously adopted, after some explanatory remarks by Mr. Garrison:

Resolved, That the persevering and petty persecution of free people of color, in respect to their rights and their comfort in travelling among us, is unworthy of a great, or of any people, and continues to be a stigma, not only upon American republicanism, but upon American civilization.

Resolved, That the thanks of this Society, and of the friends of humanity, universally, are due to GEORGE BRADBURN, a member of the House of Representatives from Nantucket, for his able Report at the last session of the Legislature, on the deliverance of citizens of this Commonwealth, who may be imprisoned in the Southern States, and liable to be sold as slaves;-a Report, showing, by a startling array of facts, that the existence of slavery not only jeopards, but actually, in many cases, takes away, the rights and liberties of free colored persons; and, by the adoption of which by the Legislature, one colored youth, who was kidnapped and carried to the South from the County of Worcester, has already been delivered from bondage, and the protective Ægis of the Commonwealth thrown over our entire colored popula

tion.

Resolved, That Mr. Bradburn deserves our thanks and applause in a special manner for his Report, inasmuch as he stood alone upon the Committee on which he was placed, in reference to this subject.

Resolved, That the manner in which the late National Anti-Slavery Convention in Albany was called by the Committee appointed for that purpose, namely, inviting none but "freemen "to attend the Convention; and the action of that Convention, excluding from a participation in its deliberations one half of the most zealous and active friends of the pining bondman in the Republic; were contrary to the spirit and object of the anti-slavery organization, and should receive the condemnation of American Abolitionists at the next Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

The following resolution called forth interesting remarks from W. L. Garrison, H. A. Morse, and John Smith, of Andover. The venerable Seth Sprague deeply impressed the meeting by a few remarks. On notion of N. B. Borden, the resolution was laid on

the table, but, after conversation, it was again taken up, and passed by a rising and unanimous vote.

Whereas, a new State organization, called the Massachusetts Abolition Society, has been formed in this Commonwealth within the past year;

And whereas, the Board of Managers of the new Society have officially charged upon the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, that it has been "perverted to purposes and objects not contemplated in our bond of union, foreign to our original objects, not necessary to their attainment, and, in the view of the reflecting, fatal to our prospects of ultimate success;"-that, in refusing to exclude a portion of its members from participating in the deliberations of its meetings, it has been guilty of a violation of good faith," and of fastening to our cause "a millstone to sink to the depths of a bottomless ocean the hopes of enslaved millions;❞—that "it has made a distinct and deliberate sacrifice of principles; "--and that it is now "fully identified with the sectarian views of a few of its individual members;"

And whereas, it is declared by the official organ of the new Society, that the Massachusetts A. S. Society has, so far as the abolition of slavery is concerned, given up "the staff of accomplishment;"—that “it destroys with one hand what it builds up with the other;"-that it has "endorsed the doctrines of non-resistance, and poured contempt upon the old constitutional measures of abolitionism;" that "the old society stands in a position fatal to accomplishment,"-and is "governed by the element of non-resistance," to the "entire prostration of its strength; "-therefore,

Resolved, That to these charges, each and all of them, this Society calmly and emphatically pleads not guilty; and declares that they are a tissue of absurdities, misrepresentations and calumnies, obviously circulated for bad purposes, to gratify sectarian pride and hatred, and to transfer the management of our sacred enterprize into unworthy hands.

Resolved, That the new organization is to be steadfastly resisted by every enlightened supporter of human rights and of freedom of conscience, as sectarian in its inception, factious in its spirit, hollow-hearted in its professions, proscriptive in its aspect, and disorganizing in its tendency.

Resolved, That if the allegations which it makes against this Society be true, then it is not only justified in making strenuous efforts for the suppression of our organization, but is solemnly bound to put forth such efforts.

Resolved, That if, under such circumstances, (in the language of the Massachusetts Abolitionist,)" the business of the new organization is not to carry on a warfare with the old," then that organization is manifestly destitute of principle.

Resolved, That, "arrayed in this attitude of hostility, one or the other of these societies must be in the wrong;-one is genuine, the other spurious; one is loyal, the other schismatical. If they were united in spirit, they would not be divided in action. The allegations, which they bring against each other, show that they can neither coalesce, nor labor harmoniously as separate bodies. The success of the one depends upon the extinction of the other."

Resolved, That the New Organization, in withdrawing itself from this Society, because women are allowed to act as equal beings in the same, and yet annexing itself to the American Anti-Slavery Society, which also admits women to equal membership, proves itself to be false and hypocritical.

The following resolutions were adopted without much discussion, for want of time.

Resolved, That we have learned, with heartfelt satisfaction, the decision of the Court in relation to thirty-six of the Amistad captives, whereby the right of a man to freedom, and to use such means as he may judge fitting to obtain it, are, for the first time, judicially established in these States.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the free and Christian people of this country, to provide for the education of all, or any portion of those captives, who, upon a full understanding of their situation and rights, may prefer to remain here for the purpose of acquiring education.

Resolved, That the case of Antonio, the cabin-boy, whom the Court has decreed to be sent back to slavery, demands further investigation;-that we would not have his rights, though he be but one, forgotten in the general gratulation that those of his companions have not been violated;-and that if it be true, as it is stated by the Court, that he wishes to be sent back to slavery, it is also true, that one of the fruits of that freedom which we believe to be due to him and to our own laws, will be the power of returning to slavery, if he pleases so to do.