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of this Institution, and in the position which
they have deliberately taken, relative to the
subject of Slavery. They have felt, & we
trust, we will feel, a lively interest in this
subject, & a readiness to do what they can for
the present & eternal welfare of the enslaved
& oppressed. But when, at the suggestion
of the Faculty, they took the matter into
serious consideration, they soon came with
entire unanimity, to the conclusion, that
they could not form associations, and agitated
the common questions, in relation to
slavery, without endangering the spirit
of piety & brotherly long among them, &
esentially interfacting with that intellectual
& moral improvement, which it is
the grand object of the Institution to
promote. We are gratified at the frank
statement above made of what they have done