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and unite your energies to carry into effect one of the most beneficent 

 measures ever devised. 



ADONIRAM CHANDLER, 

 EDWARD T. BACKHOUSE, 

 JOHN CAMPBELL, 

 JAMES VAN NORDEN, 

 H. W. CHILDS, 

 JOSEPH CURTIS, 

 GEO. ENDICOTT, 

 WM. HALL, 

 JOSEPH TORREY, 

 JAS. R. SMITH, 

 MARTIN E. THOMPSON, 

 ISAAC FRYER, 

 JOHN D. WARD, 



New-York, Aug. 1845. 



EDWARD CLARK, 

 ROBERT LOVETT, 

 GURDON J. LEEDS, 

 A. D. FRYE, 

 T. B. STILLMAN, 

 JOSEPH COWDIN, 

 JAS. J. MAPES, 

 GEO. F. BARNARD, 

 C. C. HAVEN, 

 CHAS. MAPES, 

 JONATHAN DODGE, 

 T. W. HARVEY, 

 T. B. WAKEMAN, 



Managers. 



The convention was called to order by Edward Clark, and Peter 

 Crispell, of Ulster co., N. Y., chosen chairman ; 



A. C. Van Epps, of New- York, ) <5 



James Harrison, of New-Haven, Conn., $ secretaries. 



Delegates appeared from the following States : 



Maine, Delaware, 



Vermont, Virginia, 



Massachusetts, Mississippi, 



Texas. 



On motion, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to 

 nominate officers for the convention : 



Mahlon Dickerson, 

 William Pierce, 



Edward Clark, 

 Thomas Aiflick, 



H. C. Westervelt. 



