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Delaware

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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'{A few days since, in company with C. C. Burleigh, Tiiomns Earle, Jitmes and Lucrelia Mott, I visited Wilmington, Del. We attentended an anti-sliivery meeting there, called for tlie purpose of iree discussion on the subject of slnvery n Delaware. B-:njaniin Web'o. presided. Isaac A. Flirt was Sccretary. The morning was occupied with famil ar discnssion, from whicli I learned the fullowing facts: The nnmber of slaves in the State b? lesa than 8000 . The amount of money in the State Treasury, received from tbe Federal gove.rn.ment, unappropriatec', is over $600,000. And three-fourths of the people are rea!y to eign petitions for immediate cmoncipation, with moderate componsation. - The unappropriated funda being more than sufficient. The advocates of slavery, it is said, are ubout equal in number to the convicU for crime, and of but httle beller character. The afternoon and evening was dccupied wilh continued discussion. The Atheneum was crowded in the evening. Resolutions we e preseuted declaring the wickedness of ■slaveholding - the gmlt of the nation, o-tates, lownships, and individuals - the duty of immediate emancipationj and the advantage thereof to our prosperity as a nation- and the special advantagss to be eecured by Delaware, in her civil relations and moral cbaracter, by the abolition of slavery. Before taking the vote, Iurged upon the audience this idea. These resolutions will be published as the opinions of die cit.izcns of Delaware. The entire responsibiliiy will rest upon you therefore. If you do not npprove the sent ïments expressed, and are unwilling to assume the responsiblity of their publication, be sure to vote them down, for you have the power. But if you approve Uiem, fail not to eay so by a unanirnous vote, The vote was taken, and the resolülions were adopted, by acclamation, without a dissenting voice. During the same evening-, the Democrats hnd a torch-liVht procesión, which ast-cmbled in front of our place of meeting, but co die- turba ncc was niade during the evening. The lact of our meeting was notorious, having been annaunced by the public crier, witb bell in hand, in the corners of the etreets. So much for little Del a ware."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
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