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    the person and labour of the slave ; the substitution of legal authority for the unjust and irresponsible power of the master ; and , the complete restitution of those indefeasible rights , the withholding of any of which from a race already deeply injured-ean-never-be— satis factory ^ to an upright and religious people . III . That the immediate and

    complete emancipation contemplated by this body is not incompatible with such regulations of police as may allay the fears of the most timid ; nor with any legislative enactments or authority adapted to ensure the orderly and peaceable conduct of the liberated negroes , provided they apply impartially to the whole community , protecting alike the labourers and the proprietors .

    IV . That although , in the opinion of this body , next to the slaves themselves , no class will derive more benefit from a safe and satisfactory measure of emancipation than the West Indian proprietors , yet should cases of hardship occur * in carrying a legislative enactment into effect , this body confides in his Majesty ' s Government , and in the wisdom of Parliament , for a liberal consideration of all such instances of actual

    suffering . V . That petitions grounded on the preceding resolutions be presented by this bod y to both houses of Parliament , Thomas Rees , Secretary .

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    CHRISTIAN TRACT SOCIETY ,

    The twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Society was held in the Worship-street Chapel on Thursday , the 9 th of May , on whioh occasion Samuel Sharwood , Esq . was called to the chair . *

    The Secretary commenced the business of the Meeting by reading the balance sheet ; from which it appeared that there had been tracts sold in the course of the year to the

    amount of 81 L lls . 7 dL , subscriptions received 84 / . 19 s . Od ., and donations of five guineas each from E . Johnston , Esq . and Robert Hay wood , Esq . The Report of the Committee was

    then read , which , after a few prefatory-reinaTks ^ proceeded"as ~ fotl < JWs ' : —During t £ e last year there have been reprinted eight of the old tracts , and three new ones printed ; namely , No . 4 . new series , An Address to the Parents of Sunday Scholars , by Rev . J . C . Means . No . 5 . The

    Blessedness of obeying Conscience , by Rev . E . Chapman . No . 6 . The Sunday Scholar ' s Progress , by Rev . J . C . Means . ^ To No . 4 has been appended The Way to be Happy , detailed in several rules proper to be observed in all families ; and a thousand copies of the latter have been also printed at sixpence per dozen . In the course of the last twelve

    months nearly 2 0 , 000 tracts . have been circulated ; of these thirty pounds worth have been purchased by the Unitarian Society of Belfast , and grants have been made to Societies and individuals wherever the Committee thought that the object of the Society could be promoted . A dissenting minister , to whom one of the grants was intrusted , makes the following excellent remarks , to which the Committee solicit the attention

    of the public . ' I have succeeded in establishing a Society for the purpose of lending tracts to any one who is disposed to read them , and in this way I think they will be very useful , This little Society is formed of the ladies of the congregation , two of whom remain in the Chapel a short time after each of the services , to

    lend out tracts , and receive those which were given out on the previous Sunday . And if similar Societies were more generally established amongst congregations , I think they would greatly tend to further the important objects of the Lojndon Tract Society ; for not only are many thus induced to tfead who otherwise would

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1833, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2615/page/27/