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Domestic News September 5, 1835

South Branch Intelligencer

Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia

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The Editor of the Boston Gazette reports that 59 clergymen attended the Anti-Slavery Convention in May as delegates from various states, with additional clergy sending supportive letters; Connecticut and Vermont had no clerical representation.

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Abolition Clergymen.--The Editor of the Boston Gazette has examined the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Society in May last, and says that there were present as actual delegates to the Anti-Slavery Convention, FIFTY-NINE CLERGYMEN, & that letters were received from others, who could not attend, in consequence of their parochial duties, but expressed their devotion to the cause. There were from Maine, 1: New Hampshire 11; Massachusetts, 38 ; Rhode Island 5; New York, 3.&c. Connecticut and Vermont, to their credit, were not represented by any of the Clergy.

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Politics Slave Related

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Anti Slavery Convention Clergymen Delegates Abolition Society New England Clergy

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Event Date

May Last

Event Details

The Editor of the Boston Gazette examined the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Society in May last and reported that 59 clergymen attended as delegates to the Anti-Slavery Convention, with letters from others expressing devotion to the cause due to parochial duties. Delegates: Maine 1, New Hampshire 11, Massachusetts 38, Rhode Island 5, New York 3, etc. Connecticut and Vermont not represented by clergy.

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