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and twenty two of the Junior class,
presented a memorial to the Faculty,
expressive of their drive to form in the
Seminary, an Anti - Slavery - Society,
auxiliary to the Americal Anti - Slavery
Society. A constitution for the proposed
Society, & a copy of the votes which were
passed on the subject, accompanied
the memorial. To this constitution
four additional names were affixed.
The students who forwarded these papers
to the Faculty,being nearly one fourth
part of the whole number, were generally
influenced, as we have reason to believe,
by a hearty sympathy for the suffering
slaves, & by a conviction which they had
in common with many pious men in our
community, that the formation of such
a society as they proposed would outsave