Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-01

The Great Western brings US a cow
of the Circular Letter issued by the com.
mittee OF the British and Foreign Anti.
Slavery Society, respecting the Conference
OF Anti.Slavery Delegates, to be held in the
city of London on the 18th of June next.
Freemasons Hall =" is engaged, with
comodions Committee rooms, for the sit
tlngs ofthe Convention. The names OF
the Delegates are asked for ia advance.
The measures to be proposed by the Con-
ference are restricted by the principles on
which the B. & F. Society is founded,
one OF the most material of which is, that
no countenance shall be given to the en-
ployment of forcible measures for abolish.
ing slavery or the slave trade. Our
friends in England are exceedingly earn
est in urging that full and able delega.
ton should be sent from this country, and
that neither pains nor expense should be
spared for that purpose The following
is the circular referred to:
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
III Broad street, February Is. l84O.)
The committee of the British and For
eign Ant-SlBvery Society. from the infor-
nation they have already received, not on
ly fromtheir friends in this country. but al
so from various parts of America, Eu-
rope, the West Indies, &C., have rea-
son to expect very numerous atten-
dance of Deputies from different partslofthe
world. at the General Ant-SlaVery Con-
ference, to commence on lhetwelfth ofJune
next. They have secured Freemason's
Hall, with commodious committee Rooms
adjoining. for holding its sit.ings. Thev.
are anxious early to receive from the diff
ferent Anti Slavery Bodies who NAV ap-
point deputies, the names ofthe Gentlemen
who are to represent them Such depu.
ties and the members of the London Com
mittee TO form the Conference. The
business of the conference will comnre-
bend the following amongst other matters:
Information as to the results of Eman-
cipation in Havt :the British West Indies.
&C.: the nature and extent of Slavery in
the different countries where it exists, but
especially as regards the African Race
and their defendants the nature and ex-
tent of the Slave Trade; and, finally. the
best measures by which, consistently with
the great principles on which the Society
is founded, the total and unconditional alb
clifton of Slavery and the Slave Trade can
be obtained, and the liberties and welfare
OF the emancipated population secured.
The Conference will probaly close its
labros by one or more public Meetings at
Exter Hall.
On behalf of fhe Committee,
WILLIAM ALLEN, Chairman.
The first proposal for such meeting.
so far as we know. wa made ia the Eman-
clpator. of March %, 1889, in an editorial
paragraph introductory 10 an excellent cir.
cular letter of Joseph Surge. which pre-
pared the way for The formation of the
British and Foreign A S. Society. The
suggestion was made known to the Com
m'ttee in London, who Immediately tool,
measures for the call of the Convention.
as noted 10 the Emancipator of july 4.
Al mat time the Uecuniary condition ofthe
American Anti-Slavery, and of our nation
at large, was very differenffro the nres.
ent. Yetour conviction ofthe innortance
of the meetlng remains unaltered and NC
believe that at would be sound nolicv IA
suspend many ofoar home operations i
order to secure an able and trustv renre.
sentatation from the American Anti-Slave
ry Society and It's auxiliaries. The EXEC
iatiEe Committee here will doubtless dc
their utmost to forward the object. but q:
tney haye now no agents to send ont ID
presentthe object formally to theAbolition
ISIS o. the country, and as one large State
auxiliary definitely declined doing any