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JAY TO THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. 343
our laws. When it is considered how many of the
legislators in the different States are proprietors of
slaves, and what opinions and prejudices they have
imbibed on the subject from their infancy, a sudden
and total stop to this species of oppression is not to
be expected.
We will cheerfully co-operate with you in endeavouring to procure advocates for the same cause in
other countries, and perfectly approve and commend
your establishing a correspondence in France. It
appears to have produced the desired effect; for Mons.
De Varville, the secretary of a society for the like
benevolent purpose at Paris, is now here, and comes
instructed to establish a correspondence with us, and
to collect such information as may promote our common views. He delivered to our society an extract
from the minutes of your proceedings, dated 8th of
April last, recommending him to our attention, and
upon that occasion they passed the resolutions of which
the enclosed are copies.
We are much obliged by the pamphlets enclosed
with your letter, and shall constantly make such
communications to you as may appear to us interesting.
By a report of the committee for superintending
the school We have established in this city for the
education of negro children, we find that proper attention is paid to it, and that scholars are now
taught in it. By the laws of this State, masters may
now liberate healthy slaves of a proper age without
giving security that they shall not become a parish
charge; and the exportation as well as importation of
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000378 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. 343 our laws. When it is considered how many of the legislators in the different States are proprietors of slaves, and what opinions and prejudices they have imbibed on the subject from their infancy, a sudden and total stop to this species of oppression is not to be expected. We will cheerfully co-operate with you in endeavouring to procure advocates for the same cause in other countries, and perfectly approve and commend your establishing a correspondence in France. It appears to have produced the desired effect; for Mons. De Varville, the secretary of a society for the like benevolent purpose at Paris, is now here, and comes instructed to establish a correspondence with us, and to collect such information as may promote our common views. He delivered to our society an extract from the minutes of your proceedings, dated 8th of April last, recommending him to our attention, and upon that occasion they passed the resolutions of which the enclosed are copies. We are much obliged by the pamphlets enclosed with your letter, and shall constantly make such communications to you as may appear to us interesting. By a report of the committee for superintending the school We have established in this city for the education of negro children, we find that proper attention is paid to it, and that scholars are now taught in it. By the laws of this State, masters may now liberate healthy slaves of a proper age without giving security that they shall not become a parish charge; and the exportation as well as importation of |
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