The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-20
Annual Report Of the American and
Foreign Anti-Slayery Society.

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ty was held in New York on the 9TH of
May last, and the Report has now appeared
in pamphlet Of l72 pages, elegantly
printed. 1t records the progress of the
principles Of the Society. The following
are the ecclesiastical bodies WHICH, within
the last year, have acted in favor Of Anti
slavery:
General Association Of Massachusetts.
Convention of Congregational Ministers
Of Massachusetts,.
Independent Congregational Church, at
Brownhelm, o.
Presbytery, Chlicothe, O.
Presbytery, Coshocton, g.
Presbytery Of Erie, Pa.
Franklin Presbytery, o.
Ottawa Presbytery, Ill.,
Wisconsin Convention Presbyterian and
Congregation Ministers.
Presbyterian Church, Marion, Iowa.
Presbytery of. Indianapolis, la.
Presbytery Of Fort Wayne, la.
Champlain Presl ytery, n. Y
Free Synod of Cincinnati.
Free Presbyterian Church of West Al
exander, Pa
Reformed Presbyterian Synod of North
America.
New York Synod of the Associate Re-
formed Church.
The United Presbyterian Church of Ire
land.
The Iowa State Convention Of Univer-
salists.
Christian Anti-Slavery Convention, Gin
cinna.i.
Central Association Of Illinois, composed
of between twenty and thirty Congrega-
tional Churches.
III American Home Missionary Society
American Baptist Free Mission Society
American Missionary Association
Western Baptist Free Mission Conven-
ton.
Wesleyan Methodist Convention of Ame-
RIGA. IA
New England Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
The following are the States which with
in the last year have taken similar posi-
ton, in their Legislatures:
MAIsE.-July 6, ls49. Instructs TO
abolish slavery and the slave trade in the
Dis riot of Columbia.
New HAMPsHIRE-July, lS49 Ditto
and opposed to the extension 0. slavery over
Territory now free.
VERMoNT-Noy. IL, 1s49. To pre-
vent the extension of slavery in Territory
now free and wherever Congress has juris-
diction, ana against admission Of all new
slaveholding States.
MASSACHUSETTS. ditto, Aprii27, 1850.
CoNSEcmcuT. g June 90, ls49.
RHODE ISLAND. Jan. 1850,
New York. Feb. 1850.
OHIo.-Whg and Democratic Conven-
tons, both resolve to prevent the extension
of slavery by all Constitutional means.
ISDIANA Institutes and requests Sena-
tors and Representatives TO exclude slavery
from acquired Territory.
WIscoNsIN.-Senate requests delegates
:. L.
in Congress to apply ordinance Of 1887 to
all territory.
Here is the adhesion of twenty-seven
ecclesiastical bodies, and nine sovereign
States given in one year, to ti-slavery
doctrines, and to cut of the people Of the
South, who hold slaves, from religious COM
munion and political rights.
There is no statement Of the finances in
the report, but there must have been very
large expenditure Of money. They inform
US that
ssTwo editions Of the last Annual Report were
published and distributed in this and other
countries, while an abstract of it extensively
published in the newspapers. A copy was sent
to each foreign missionary-to the principal home
missionaries--,o editors of ant-slavery, free-soil
papers throughout the country--to the men,
bers of the Both Congress--to the foreign
ministers and consuls of the United States
to the members of the Judiciary and heads of de-
partments-to the governors of the States---to
leading clerical and lay citizens-7ond to disin-
guished anti-savery men in other countries. The
committee furnished means for publishing a re-
ply to the lecture of Ellwood Fisher in defence
of slavery bya Carolinian, and aided in circulating
extensively the speeches Of Horace Mann. Large
editions of the anii-slavery Almanac were pub
lished and sold. The committee issued several
editions of an address to the inhabitants of New
Mexico and California, which were distributed by
an agent in California. A translation OF it in
Spanish is in press, and with quantity in Eng
lish will soon be sent to New Mexico. They
have published and sent over the country in
pamphlet or newspaper form, large numbers >of
Jaws Reviews ofClay s Compromise, and Web
ster's Speech on Slavery, and also Stewards
Speech. They sent circular into all the free
States, urging the importance ofpetitioning Con-
gres-I To secure TO alleged fugitiyes the right