Ladies' Repository. Philanthropic and Literary. THIS DEPARTMENT IS PRINCIPALLY SUPERINTENDED BY A LADY.
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Ladies' Repository. Philanthropic and Literary. THIS DEPARTMENT IS PRINCIPALLY SUPERINTENDED BY A LADY.
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LADIES' FREE PRODUCE SOCIETY.
We have received the November report of this society, and have now the pleasure of presenting it to our readers. We feel particular gratification in noticing the proceedings and increasing usefulness of this society, because it is a proof of how much may be effected by small means, if people wil but make the commencing effort.
The first few individuals by whom this association was established, did not reason nicely on practicabilities or inconveniences--they did not coldly pity the slave, yet continue to revel in all the luxuries extracted by his sufferings, nor delay all active exertions in his favor because there was no probability of their effecting important results:--but they felt that slavery was a national and an individual crime, and they came at once to offer a sacrifice of atonement upon the altar of justice, that the stain of blood-guiltiness might be removed far from them. This faithfulness to their duty has so prospered, that they have been able to procure almost all necessary articles "uncontaminated by the taint of slavery."
When will more of our sex do after this manner? Have their hearts become hard--have they lost the compassionateness of their natures, that the cry of the miserable is so strangely unattended to--or responded only by the voice of inactive lamentation?
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF "THE FEMALE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF FREE COTTON."
In conformity with the object of their appointment, the committee have kept in view the various concerns of the association. The knitting and sewing cotton, mentioned in our last report, is now complete and for sale at John Townsend's, No. 94, Fifth above Cherry-street, where either can be had in large or small quantities to suit purchasers. We have contracted with a weaver to have a few pieces of muslin made of the cotton yarn on hand. In our last report we stated that we had contracted with a person to manufacture some into laps or batting for quilts and wadding. 170 lbs of laps and 57 lbs of wadding have come to hand. The laps we have disposed of, at cost, to James Pierce, grocer, cormer of Noble and Third streets,--who has engaged to [?] them at a small advance, And although the price will be something more than the price of a similar article made of slave cotton, it must be remembered that this is more substantial; being manufactured from clean, cotton, while the other is generally made of the fly-off or waste cotton. We have also sent information to different parts of the country that these articles can be obtained, and where they are deposited.
The committee consider it a duty incumbent upon them to encourage our members, and others, as way may open, to aid this righteous cause by promoting the use and giving the preference to goods of every description which can be obtained free from slave labor. Fully believing if those who are opposed to slavery would be willing to make this sacrifice, that, (to adopt the language of a late interesting writer on the subject) "small and insignificant as the sacrifice may appear, it would give a death blow to slavery;--for when there is no longer a market for the productions of slave labor--then, and not till then, will the slaves be emancipated."
Philadelphia, 11th mo. 9th, 1829.
We have received the November report of this society, and have now the pleasure of presenting it to our readers. We feel particular gratification in noticing the proceedings and increasing usefulness of this society, because it is a proof of how much may be effected by small means, if people wil but make the commencing effort.
The first few individuals by whom this association was established, did not reason nicely on practicabilities or inconveniences--they did not coldly pity the slave, yet continue to revel in all the luxuries extracted by his sufferings, nor delay all active exertions in his favor because there was no probability of their effecting important results:--but they felt that slavery was a national and an individual crime, and they came at once to offer a sacrifice of atonement upon the altar of justice, that the stain of blood-guiltiness might be removed far from them. This faithfulness to their duty has so prospered, that they have been able to procure almost all necessary articles "uncontaminated by the taint of slavery."
When will more of our sex do after this manner? Have their hearts become hard--have they lost the compassionateness of their natures, that the cry of the miserable is so strangely unattended to--or responded only by the voice of inactive lamentation?
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF "THE FEMALE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF FREE COTTON."
In conformity with the object of their appointment, the committee have kept in view the various concerns of the association. The knitting and sewing cotton, mentioned in our last report, is now complete and for sale at John Townsend's, No. 94, Fifth above Cherry-street, where either can be had in large or small quantities to suit purchasers. We have contracted with a weaver to have a few pieces of muslin made of the cotton yarn on hand. In our last report we stated that we had contracted with a person to manufacture some into laps or batting for quilts and wadding. 170 lbs of laps and 57 lbs of wadding have come to hand. The laps we have disposed of, at cost, to James Pierce, grocer, cormer of Noble and Third streets,--who has engaged to [?] them at a small advance, And although the price will be something more than the price of a similar article made of slave cotton, it must be remembered that this is more substantial; being manufactured from clean, cotton, while the other is generally made of the fly-off or waste cotton. We have also sent information to different parts of the country that these articles can be obtained, and where they are deposited.
The committee consider it a duty incumbent upon them to encourage our members, and others, as way may open, to aid this righteous cause by promoting the use and giving the preference to goods of every description which can be obtained free from slave labor. Fully believing if those who are opposed to slavery would be willing to make this sacrifice, that, (to adopt the language of a late interesting writer on the subject) "small and insignificant as the sacrifice may appear, it would give a death blow to slavery;--for when there is no longer a market for the productions of slave labor--then, and not till then, will the slaves be emancipated."
Philadelphia, 11th mo. 9th, 1829.
Source
Genius of Universal Emancipation 4:12, p. 92
Date
11.27.1829
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