XXXIII 
AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA 
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF 
SLAVERY, AND THE RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES 
UNLAWFULLY HELD IN BONDAGE 
PHILADELPHIA, 9 November, 1780. 
It is with peculiar satisfaction we assure the 
friends of humanity, that, in prosecuting the design 
of our association, our endeavors have proved suc- 
cessful far beyond our most sanguine expecta- 
tions. 
Encouraged by this success, and by the daily pro- 
gress of that luminous and benign spirit of liberty, 
which is diffusing itself throughout the world, and 
humbly hoping for the continuance of the divine 
blessing on our labors, we have ventured to make an 
important addition to our original plan, and do 
therefore earnestly solicit the support and assistance 
of all who can feel the tender emotions of sympathy 
and compassion, or relish the exalted pleasure of 
beneficence. 
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human 
nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed 
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