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equal degree with their more favored fellow creatures who are free--Your committee believe[sic] "the Subject is one in which "all the Citizens of the United States ought to feel deeply and ardently interested, and that as the Supporters of civil liberty, as the ["friends" crossed out] real friends of freedom and of man, it is their duty & should be their delight to use all possible influence, within the Constitution and the Law to promote the emancipation of Slaves & the abolition of Slavery,

Your committee are[sic] aware that Slavery in Slaveholding States is Constitutionally beyond the reach of Legislative Control; and many believe it is alike unpolitich [?] and improper for one State to interfere[underlined] in the internal and domestric[sic] concerns of another -- yet they do deem it proper for individuals and societies to use all honorable and lawful means to emancipate the enslaved, and if "a System of foreign Colonisation{sic]" could be adopted which would ["in the larger" is crossed out] " effect that entire emancipation of Slaves" Your Committee cannot for a moment entertain the opinion that there would be any impropriety in the resolutions of any Legislature accommending [?] such system --