'At a full meeting of some of the warmest advocates of the Anti-Slavery cause in Boston'

              At a full meeting of some of the warmest advocates of the Anti-Slavery cause in Boston & the adjacent towns, who are at the same time members & friends of the Massachusetts & the American Anti-Slavery Societies convened at the house of Francis Jackson to take into consideration the most effectual mode of action at the present time for the promotion of the cause. Francis Jackson of Boston was chosen chairman & Wm A White of Watertown Secretary. The following expression of sentiment was then unanimously adopted.

Resolved, that the Liberator, as the earliest, the ablest, the most powerful & the most successful Anti-Slavery instrumentality through the experience, fidelity, devotedness, genius & general high character of its editor William Lloyd Garrison, has a claim on all the friends of the Anti-Slavery cause for their constant & strenuous exertions to extend its circulation.

Resolved, That Francis Jackson, Maria Weston Chapman, Ellis Gray Loring, Samuel Philbrick, Thankful Southwick, William Jenkins, Abner Sanger, Wm Ashby Jr., Geo. Bradburn, John A Collins Wendell Phillips, Mary A. W. Johnson, Christopher Robinson, John Rogers & Edmund Quincy, be a committee to prepare a communication on behalf of this meeting to the friends of the cause throughout the Country, presenting to them a plan to extend the circulation of the Liberator & exhorting them to aid us in carrying it into energetic & effectual operation.

Hereupon the above named committee presented the following letter, which was adopted by the meeting as a means of communicating with you & all other faithful friends of the cause; with earnest expressions of determination to carry the course of action it recommends into effect urging the adoption of the same throughout the Country & the World.

Hollis Street. Boston Jany 9 1843.

Dear Friend,

It is probably known to you that great exertions have recently been put forth, to make the Liberator as complete a medium of intelligence from the seat of our pro-slavery government as it has ever been of Anti-Slavery feeling & action from the head quarters of Freedom in Boston. With Mr. Garrison at the post of action here, for which his entire devotedness, eminent ability & experience & rare union of enthusiasm & good judgment in the conduct of the movement he originated, so peculiarly qualify him, by securing the confidence of Abolitionists, the respect even of Slaveholders, & the freedom of the enterprise from all embarrassing connection with their apologists; with Mr. Child at the post of observation at the South, for which his extensive historical & legal knowledge, his comprehensive & statesmanlike mind, & long proved love for the cause make him so fit an occupant; At so important a juncture, when a favoring wind & current direct us to stretch every sheet to their impulse, ought not the friends of the Slave to do more in behalf of the Liberator, than merely to pay up last years arrears? It is in the conviction that we as abolitionists are morally bound to requite the benefits which our cause & our own souls have received from this instrumentality by sharing them with as many as possible, that we make the following suggestions, earnestly urging upon you the importance of doing this work, whatever else in the cause remains the while undone.

1. We propose simultaneous private meetings for the Liberator throughout the Country to be called by your writing notes of invitation to those persons in your immediate neighborhood who already take the Liberator, & whose friendliness to it is undoubted, & who will therefore feel it their duty to obtain new participants in the pleasure & the profit they receive begging them to meet on the day of [blank] for joint action in this behalf.

2. Being together, to appoint two of the most devoted & responsible of your number as treasurers, & to resolve yourselves into a committee of the whole, each pledging him or herself to obtain all the obtainable subscribers the place affords by making personal