NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY  —At a meeting of the friends of abolition, held in  Boston on the evening of January 1, 1832, for the purpose of organizing an Anti-Slavery Society, the following Preamble and Constitution were adopted……(The entire first page, ending with this paragraph):

To do away the horrors of slavery, and prevent such ravages as are here depicted, we do most earnestly invite the co-operation of our  fellow citizens; and we can hardly conceive how any one is entitled to the name of a philanthropist or of a Christian, who is either ashamed or afraid thus to show himself a  Friend To The Country And A Friend To The Black Man.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

President   ARNOLD BUFFUM

JAMES C. ODIORNE,  1st Vice-President,  ALONZO LEWIS, 2d Vice-President

Corresponding Secretary,  WM. LLOYD GARRISON,   Recording Secretary, JOSHUA COFFIN

Treasurer,  MICHAEL H. SIMPSON    Counsellors:   MOSES THACHER,  JOHN E. FULLER,

OLIVER  JOHNSON, ROBRT B. HALL,  BENJAMIN C. BACON,  JOHN STIMPSON

(Liberator, February 18, 1832, pg 1)