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                <text>FREE LABOR DRY GOODS,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manufactured by the American Free Produce Association.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;MANCHESTER ginghams,&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;two qualities, and various patterns; checks, aprons, and furniture, four qualities and prices; canton flannel, bleached and unbleached, two qualities; muslin; bleached and unbleached shirtings, two qualities; thin muslin for linings, brown, bleached, and colored; table diaper, 7-4 and 8-4 (bird-eye,) brown and bleached; table diaper, 7-4 and 8-4, huckaback bird-eye towels; buff pantaloon stripes; fancy do. do. various patterns; black and white wadding; cotton laps, or batts; cotton yarn, assorted numbers; lamp wick; bed ticking, an excellent article; callicoes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On hand and for sale, wholesale, by&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J MILLER M'KIM, 31 N. Fifth Street,&lt;br /&gt;And retail, by&lt;br /&gt;LYDIA WHITE, 219 N. Second Street.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;William C. Betts, No. 43 Cherry Street.Daniel L. Miller, Jr. No. 250 Arch St., or toJames Mott, No. 35 Church alley,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Committee on Manufactures&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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                <text>A committee was recently appointed by the Union Free Produce Society, of Chester and Lancaster counties, Pa. to inquire into the genuineness of goods professing to be free from the stain of slave labor. The committee addressed the following queries to Charles Collins, of New-York: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RESPECTED FRIEND: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By answering the following queries thou wilt much oblige thy friends, and confer a particular favor upon the advocates of abstinence from slave labor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st. From what source is thy free cotton obtained? and is the necessary care taken by the manufacturer to preserve it from a mixture with that which is not free? &lt;br /&gt;2d. Is the coloring used by thee, free from the stain of slavery? &lt;br /&gt;3d. Whence are thy groceries obtained? &lt;br /&gt;4th. Is thy store supplied entirely with free goods, or are both kinds kept therein? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Committee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THOMAS HAMBLETON,&lt;br /&gt;ELIZABETH KENT.&lt;br /&gt;ELIZABETH HAMBLETON,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To these questions Charles Collins returned the following reply: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I received yours, requesting answers to four queries. In reply to the first, I may say that I have had some free labor cotton from Friends in North Carolina, and some from Alabama. I expect some from Georgia, and may perhaps have some from Florida. From good information, I have reason to think that free labor cotton is to be had in all the south and southwestern States, where cotton is raised. It is produced by the labor of poor, white men and their children, in small quantities. Some raise two or three bales, and some more. Much of it is cleaner and better than slave grown cotton. A person from Florida, with whom I have been acquainted for several years, told me this week, that he could get 20 or more bales in his neighborhood. Another, now deceased, with whom I was very intimate, had resided in Charleston (S. C.) and went to Friend's meeting there. He said he thought that, by taking pains, there might annually be produced in South Carolina near one thousand bales of free labor cotton. He said it was brought to Charleston in one horse wagons, in the fall; but that from slave plantations was conveyed in large teams. In the English West Indies and Haiti, free labor cotton is raised; also in some parts of South America. I think I might safely engage to procure free labor cotton in much greater quantities than there is at present a demand for in the United States. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second: Indigo is a leading article in coloring. This mostly comes from Bengal, in India, and Caraccas, in South America, where it is raised free from slave labor. Not much is now raised in the South. Madder and woad, both principal articles, come from vegetables raised in Holland and England; of course free. As to other colors, I cannot say much about them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third: Much of my sugar is raised on free labor plantations in Porto Rico, and Laguira. The loaf and lump sugar I purchase is made of Manilla, Siam, and other free sugars ; also Carthagena. I have white sugar from Canton; likewise Maple sugar . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourth: I have kept a strictly free labor store, for 25 years and upwards; chiefly groceries, some cotton goods. I may, perhaps, have more cotton goods. There are now in the hands of a calico printer, about 8,000 yards for me; to be plain goods, and fast colors. From late information, I am led to think that sugar , &amp;amp;c. raised by free labor , is to be had in Louisiana. I have written for some. I prefer goods, the growth of our own country, because no duty is paid on them. Some of the money that goes into the national treasury is used to make war upon Indians, &amp;amp;c.; and in this I wish to take no part. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I engaged ten bales of upland cotton to be procured in Florida, by a person with whom I have been acquainted several years; he told me he thought he could get me a much larger quantity, in a neighborhood where were a considerable number of poor people who raised it without slavery. By consulting the Encyclopedia of Geography, in 3 vols. by Hugh Murray, published in Philadelphia, in 1838, thou wilt see a list of the British islands, all free; and that in the island of Porto Rico there were, in 1830, 323,838 persons. Of this number 34,240 were slaves; 127,287 free colored persons; and 162,311 whites. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This shows that about one tenth are slaves. These slaves, I expect, are chiefly employed in boiling sugar . My mind is so much led to think of the South, that I have thought I would like to spend my winter there, buying free labor goods, and visiting slave plantations. If the several free produce societies would unite, they might perhaps make it worth while for some one to go there on that business. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHARLES COLLINS, &lt;br /&gt;No. 3 Cherry Street, New-York. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FROM THE UNION FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY. &lt;br /&gt;Resolved, That the reply of Charles Collins, of New-York, to the iuterrogataries of our committee, received by this society, is satisfactory in detail. It tends to confirm the confidence hitherto reposed in him, as an agent for procuring goods uncontaminated by the gains of oppression, as exhibited in the system of American slavery. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTED. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At a stated meeting of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, held 3d month 10th, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whereas, This society has recently been bereaved, by death, of one of its earliest and most self-denying members, Grace Douglass, and the abolitionists of this city and of our country, also, of another venerable coadjutor, James Forten, therefore, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resolved, That while we offer to their afflicted relatives and friends our warmest sympathies, we regard their removal from us as a call to renewed diligence in the work to which they devoted their energies, and in which we are permitted awhile longer to labor; and that, profiting by their exemplary lives and triumphant deaths, we will endeavor to follow them as they followed Christ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANNA M. 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&lt;p align="left"&gt;It has long been the sentiment of my mind, that it is wrong for us willingly and knowingly, to aid in supporting any cause, the effects of which produce sin and misery. That Slavery is the cause of much,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;very&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;&lt;/i&gt;much misery and distress, perhaps no one will pretend to deny; and that even&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;some&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;&lt;/i&gt;of the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;Abolitionists&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;&lt;/i&gt;are supporting, this cause, by trafficking in, and consuming slave-earned goods. It seems inconsistent with reason, that we should pray for the of we are maintaining, by constantly dropping weights in the scale which we fain would raise. Let us withhold the weights, and the scales will soon come to an equilibrium, when a little would weigh down our scale. But as future events are hid from us, so that we cannot always determine the issue of any course which we may pursue, it is necessary that our reason be directed by unerring wisdom, and that all our actions proceed from pure motives. Then we need not fear the result; for whatever evil may come in by and bye, we may rest assured does not proceed from any act of ours, but had its origin in another source.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Have we not a sufficient number of Abolitionists deeply interested in the cause, who will establish a free produce market? Will they not appropriate a portion of the money which they are using for other branches, in this cause, to assist in bringing about such a trade? I think this would be the most effectual step towards freeing the blacks, that has yet been taken, if it could be judiciously managed.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Let such individuals be selected to manage and oversee the business as may be confided in; such as feel their interests bound together with the interests of all others. Let them go to the Southern planters, and in the spirit of meekness and love, say to them: “We wish for some of your cotton, sugar, and rice, but we are fully determined not to traffic in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;slave-earned&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;&lt;/i&gt;goods; therefore, if you will set your slaves at liberty, and hire them, we will purchase the produce of their labour, and pay you an extra price for it.” This might encourage some one to try the experiment of employing men, instead of slaves, and perhaps others might follow the example, induced by the prospect of a more ready market; and as there are already some free plantations, there could soon be a sufficient quantity of goods obtained to make a beginning. Then these articles might be kept by themselves and fitted for market.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;It has often been urged that we should be likely to be imposed upon, by having slave-earned goods presented to us instead of free goods. But I think a remedy for this might be found, by having the price of free goods stationed a cent or two at least lower on a pound of sugar, or a yard of cloth, than the market price of slave goods of the same quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Some may think this would be doing too much; but let us pause and view the subject a little. This would be bearing only a small share of the burden which we, ourselves have been heaping upon the slaves, by being accessory with their masters, by buying and consuming what they have compelled the slaves to raise.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;No matter how many hands the goods come through; the consumer is the one for whom they are intended. Were there no consumers of slave goods, there would be none handed forth, consequently no slaves wanted. So that the sin of Slavery does not wholly rest upon the slaveholders, but in part upon the purchaser and consumers of the goods; who, for the sake of gain to themselves, have as it were, agreed with the slaveholders to cheat the slaves out of their hard-earned wages. They have done it in deed if not in word, until it would seem as if nearly all classes of community had become coworkers with the slaveholder.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;How can Abolitionists continue in this? Will they not overthrow this iniquitous trade by introducing the free trade as here proposed? If they would reserve a share of the money now devoted to the Anti-Slavery cause, for the purpose of procuring free goods, and keep back the money designed for buying slave goods, and turn that into the free scale also, this might enable them to give a price for free goods sufficiently high to encourage the slaveholder to produce free goods by changing his slaves into free men and women. And let it be remembered that each weight thus kept back and put into the free scale counts two, or weighs down as much as two on any other consideration. And should we not be willing to sacrifice a little time and money to recompense the slaves for the wrongs we have done them; and how can we do this in a better or more safe way. This would give them an opportunity to stay with their old masters, or choose new ones just as they could agree; and they would not be compelled to leave their state, town, or neighbourhood, to find their liberty at the risk of their lives, not knowing where to find friends, or daring to return to those they left behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;There are some individuals who are doing nearly without cotton goods, and others who are purchasing very reluctantly; and would be willing to be at more trouble and expense to procure free goods. Such as those would willingly contribute a little towards supporting a trade in free goods. There is another class who seem all unconscious of its being any crime to use the products of slave labour, but feel compelled to buy goods where they can get them cheapest. Doubtless such would take free goods, so that the free market would soon increase, and continue to increase, until it gained the whole trade.—Slave goods would then soon grow dull in market, for no one would wish to purchase them, as long as they could get free goods at a lower price.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;If there could be a channel like this, ever so small, once put in operation, with good, faithful attendance, it would soon deepen and widen. The immediate effect of this would be the undoing of the heavy burdens to let the oppressed go free; and at the same time assisting the poor people who are now almost compelled to purchase what is worse than stolen goods, though many of them are innocent of it because of their ignorance. Thus, many would become supporters in the Anti-Slavery cause unawares.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;I ask again, will not Abolitionists withhold their money from buying slave goods, and introduce it into the free trade.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Some people seem to think because there are some few articles of slave labour which we cannot consistently discard the use of, that they may be excused for using the whole. The article of paper, for instance, we must have; but I do not consider that we are supporting Slavery, in the use of it, for no one buys cloth for the sake of the rags. Not a vestige more is bought than would be if the rags were thrown away. However, I do not wish to discourage any, and all other means of assisting the slaves, which may be pursued consistent with truth and righteousness, but hope they will refrain from using the produce of their labour until it can be changed into free labour; wait a little longer for goods; do with a little less for the sake of the oppressed. Some think themselves entitled to the labour of the slave because they are labouring in the abolition cause. Let such consider that although they are working with good intent, how much faster they might progress by moving straight onwards, instead of taking two steps forwards and one backwards. Therefore, if we wish to progress in the cause, let us cease to support Slavery.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;I could freely purchase goods of any merchant having a quantity of slave goods on hand, if he had become sensible that in buying these goods he had been oppressing the slaves, and was firmly resolved no longer to partake in this trade; for I should consider such goods free. But I cannot feel justified in taking goods out of any store where, in all probability, they will draw upon the slave to fill the vacancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;I rejoice that there are several free produce associations already established in the country. With much respect for them, I wish them good success in their undertaking, but think they would progress faster in the cause if they would adopt this plan of buying and selling. True, it would take more capital to carry it on, but I presume there are many, not yet called Abolitionists who for the release of the slaves as we, and I trust many of these would come forward in this cause and cast their mite into the treasury to assist in carrying out this new plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;But while we are endeavouring to assist the slaves, let us not be unmindful of the pitiable condition of the slaveholders. They are bound with fetters stronger than iron. If&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;we&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;xsl-text&gt;&lt;/xsl-text&gt;&lt;/i&gt;had a father, a brother, or a son, who was a slaveholder, how soon should we fly to him with entreaties for him to disengage himself from so vicious a calling. And let us not forget to plead earnestly with the master to release his slaves from bondage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMY TAFT.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;It appears that this gin, which may be conveyed to the West India Islands for about 10s., is all the machinery that is necessary for the cleaning of cotton. How cheap and simple a source of comfort and revenue might cotton&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;growing become to the inhabitants of those islands!&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Be it also remembered that the exuberance of the West Indian soil and climate allow of two crops of cotton&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;being gathered in the year, instead of only one. The frosts of winter uniformly cut off the American plant, and call for its being renewed each spring; while, in the West Indies and Natal, the same shrub lasts for six, eight, or ten years, and requires comparatively no attention, except being kept clear of weeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Why, with this source of an abundant supply within easy reach, and only requiring a spirited demand for it to fill the British markets - O why should the ladies of England continue to clothe themselves in garments wrung from the bondsman's sufferings? Why should his back be forever bleeding in their service, and the holiest ties of love and affection be constantly rent asunder to find victims for the auction-block, and human cattle for the cultivation of the sugar plantation and for the rice and cotton&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;field?&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>Can you tell us, Mr. Editor, where and on what terms we can purchase sugar, molasses and coffee; the proceeds of free labor. I use from two to three barrels of sugar, a barrel of molasses and a bag of coffee in my family per year, and feel unwilling to contribute that little to the support of slavery.&#13;
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                <text>FRIEND Q— &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have waited to see if there would be any response in the Liberator to the letter of our friends in Philadelphia on the subject of obtaining from the products of slave labor ; but as nothing appears from head quarters, I have a suggestion to make. Agreeing as I do on the general view of the subject taken by our Philadelphia Friends I am desirers to do something to relieve myself and others as far as practicable from the necessity of being obliged to give this kind of support to slavery. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no controversy with Mr. Garrison and these who take his view of the questions, for I am aware that we cannot avoid giving to some extent this kind of support to unrequited labor, without going out of the world. Still I would do all that can be done Therefore, all persons who are in favor making an effort to avoid (as much as possible) the purchase of the products of Slave labor , are required to meet at the offer of Grandin &amp;amp;. Dudley, No. 238 Washington Street, on Friday evening, Sept. 1st. at 7 12 o'clock. to consult upon the measures necessary to be taken to form a free labor produce association. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D.S. GRANDIAN.</text>
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                <text>FREE LABOR PRODUCE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Monkton, Vermont, 9th mo. 2d, 1853&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;ESTEEMED FRIEND:--I have been a member of the Free Produce Association of Friends of N.Y. Yearly Meeting for some years, but regret we have to report, year after year, of the existence of so much&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;apathy&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;amongst those that it is reasonable to expect would manifest the opposite--that is,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;interest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;It is now gratifying to observe others are taking the subject in hand. The "Wesleyan" is discussing it, the "Burlington Courier" admits an article occasionally in support of the doctrine of abstinence; and thinking people hereaway are beginning to inquire if there is not some other way by which they can procure cotton than by going to the slaveholder for it? The "Non-Slaveholder" is curculated here, and is doing good; may be it will be enlarged some day, so as to do more good. Some of the friends of the free labor movement are desirous of carrying their views more thoroughly into practice than they can by individual action alone. They are beginning to think the "outsiders" might have a free labor association. I have written to Gerrit Smith on the subject, and he has returned me a favorable answer, and has sent my letter to F. Douglass's Paper. The proposition is to form an American Free Produce Association, admitting all that are willing to conform to the conditions of membership, to raise a little capital for investment in free labor goods, cotton especially, and have it manufactured, so as, if possible, to offer it at the price of that from slave labor cotton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am induced to make this application to three, believing the Pennsylvania Freeman has heretofore advocated this plan of antislavery action, for information in relation to it, viz: Is the "American Free Produce Association," that has held its meeting in Philadelphia, still in being? Is it aiming at extending its influence into ts or other regions? If it has suspended its operations, would it be desirable to reorganize upon a plan that would admit all those friendly to it, &amp;amp;c.? Its constitution and such other statistics as thee thinks would be acceptable to us here, will be thankfully received.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allow me to inquire, also, do not the labors of our transatlantic friends in this department increase the inducement for exertion on this side the ocean? And do not the plans developed in the "Cotton Plant" against us give an additional inducement?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best apology I have at hand for this communication, is a desire to co-operate in my feeble way with those laboring for the abolition of slavery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remain, respectfully, thy friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HENRY MILES</text>
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