The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-11-05
Tribute of Respect to the Mem
Dry of Thomas ClarksOn.

Resolutions passed at special meeting of
the Executive Committee of the American
and Foreign Antl-Slavery Society, on receiv-
ing intelligence Of the death of the venerable
and lamcnted Thomas Clarkson.
Whereas, intelligence has just reached this
Committee that it has pleased Almighty God
to remove by death the venerable Thomas
Clarkson, which event took place at Playford
Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk county, England,
on the Goth Of September last, in his eighty
seventh year, after a life of unusual activity,
usefulness and devotion to the welfare Of the
human race, especially to the relief and i'm
provement of the people of color
ReS0Iccd, That the Executive Committee
of the American and Foreign Anti Slavery
Society deeply sympathize with the aged and
bercaved widow of the deceased, and with the
youthful grandson who bears the name of his
late reverend relative, in the death Of a most
attached and devoted husband and father.
Resolved, That we mourn with. the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society the death
Of their venerable President, the last Of the
noble band, who upward of sixty years ago,
associated to bring about the extinction Of the
slave trade, and the abolition of slavery
joicing at the same time, that he was so long
spared to the Society and to manSinda bright
example Of intelligent zeal and untiring ASST
duty in the cause of the oppressed and suffer-
ing throughout the world.
ResOlred, That we revere the memory of
the distinguished Anti Slavery Patriarch, who
through evil report and good report, consc-
Grated his youth maturity and old age, with
disinterested zeal and indomitable persever-
ance, to the cause of Human Rights, and who
continually exhorted his coadjutors to "per-
severe" amidst calumny, prejudice, misrepre-
sentation and violence, in laboring for the
deliverance of their fellow men from bon
dage, and for the speedy and universal tri-
umph of truth, humanity and christianity over
error, cruelty land the Popular Religion of the
age.
Rcsoleed, That the "Last Farewell Letter"
of Thomas Clarkson to protesting Christians
in the Northern States of America, as to their
duty on the subject slavery, nowin the hands
of this Committee in manuscript, and sent to
this country by the venerable writer,b be widely
published, in the hope that the dying exhor-
tations of this Apostle of Liberty and Friend
Of Man may be needed, and that the conclu-
sion of the letter may be laid to the heart by
the members Of the church of Christ in this
land; 81 entreat you to give it the most Sc
rious consideration for it is subject in which
not only your yourselves are deeply interest
cd, but in which the happiness of your fellow
creatures yet unborn is concerned. May the
Divine Spirit assist your deliberations, and
may the Almighty give his blessing to your
labors."
Reso7red, That Hon. VIM. Jay be request
ed to deliver an Eulogy in this City, at such
time and place as may hereatterbe dctcrmin-
ed, commemorative of the talents virtues and
services of the late Thomas Clarkson.
Resolved, That thescl resolutions, together
with Clarkson's Farewell Letter to Profess
ing Christians in the Northern States Of A.
merica be published, and that copies of the
resolutions be sent to the widow and grand
son of the deceased, and also to the British
aed Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
ARTHUR TAPPAN, Chairman.
WIN. HARMED, Rec. Sec.