1. That all the manumission societies in the United States proclaim it as the Christian American Jubilee.
2. That the different societies encourage the keeping of the day, as a Jubilee, by publishing essays, songs, etc., showing the utility thereof.
3. That those societies celebrate the Fourth of July, next, with preaching, prayer, and singing as a Christian Jubilee.
4. That those who are sensible of the evil of slavery, form themselves into Christian Manumission Societies, excluding slaveholders from their number.
5. That they send forth missionaries to preach the acceptable year of the Lord to slaveholders.
6. That all these societies establish a correspondence with each other through the Genius of Universal Emancipation. The Genius, IV, 143.
[42] Minutes of the American Convention for 1826, p. 48.
[43] Tennessee History Magazine, I, 276.
[44] Niles Register, XIV, 321.
[45] “We wish you, therefore, to know, that within our bounds the public sentiment appears clearly and decidedly in your favor, and that the more vigorously and perseveringly you combine and extend your exertions on the plan you have adopted, the more you are likely to be crowned with the approbation of the people as well as with the higher rewards of doing good. While, then the heralds of salvation go forth in the name and strength of their Divine Master, to preach the Gospel to every creature, we ardently wish that your exertions and the best influence of all philanthropists may be united, to ameliorate the condition of human society, and especially of its most degraded classes, till liberty, religion, and happiness shall be the enjoyment of the whole family of man.” Tenth Annual Report of American Colonization Society, 67-8.