Our spirits are oppressed with a sense of the
magnitude of the evil; we tremble at the awful consequence
which, in the justice and wisdom of Almighty God, may ensue to
those who persist in the upholding of it. We commend the whole
subject to your most serious attention, and desiring that divine
wisdom may be near to help in your deliberations upon it,
"We bid you, affectionately, farewell.
"Signed in and on behalf of the Meeting, by
"GEORGE STACEY,
"_Clerk to the Meeting this year_."
APPENDIX B. P. 30.
EARLY EFFORTS OF "FRIENDS" IN BEHALF OF NEGRO SLAVES.
The following extract from Clarkson's "Memoirs of the Public and Private
Life of William Penn," will show how the society of Friends, at a very
early period, became unwarily entangled with the practice of slave
holding; and also that the unchristian nature of it was immediately
perceived by the more spiritual minded among them. It will serve also to
prove that the testimony of Friends against slavery is no novelty, but
is coeval with its rise as a distinct religious body.
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