Article IV
The requisite qualifications of our members are true republican principle, patriotic, and in favor of emancipation; and that no immoral character be admitted into the society as a member.”—P. of V. S. H. S., No. 2, p. 12.
[6] The Friends were the moving spirit in the organization of these early societies.
[7] The Genius of Universal Emancipation, IV, 184.
[8] These societies were distributed as follows: 8 in Virginia; 11 in Maryland; 2 in Delaware; 2 in District of Columbia; 8 in Kentucky; 25 in Tennessee, and 50 in North Carolina. Poole, William Frederick, Anti-Slavery Opinion before 1800, p. 72.
[9] The Genius, October 13, 1827.
[10] P. of V. S. H. S., No. 2, p. 13.
[11] Article 2, Constitution of the Tennessee Manumission Society.
[12] Temple, O. P., East Tennessee and the Civil War, 109ff.
[13] Annals of Congress, 17th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 642 and 709; the 18th Congress, 1st Session, p. 931.