Free Produce

Free Produce.

PHILADELPHIA, 4th mo. 8, 1841.

FRIEND ROGERS:—I had hoped that the anti-slavery papers would generally have complied with the request of our Free Produce Committee, to copy their “Address to Abolitionists,” without each being furnished with a special invitation; but it seems I was mistaken, for I am not avare of more than two or three having copied it. I will, therefore, issue a special invitation to the Standard, to conply with the request contained in the resolution of our commitee; and do hereby particularly invite all papers claining to be anti-slavery, to do likewise, unless they think the subject on which it treats is of too little importance to occupy the space of three columns in their papers.

I know not why it is, that the subject of abstinence from slave labor produce receives so small a share of the attention of the anti-slavery press. The addresses, annual reports and resolutions of our associations rarely get beyond the columns of the Freeman. Take, for instance, the proceedings of our last annual meeting; ‘tis true, a few papers copied a portion of the report, and a few of the resolutions we adopted; but the extract from the report was that portion which referred to the exclusion of our delegates from the so-called-by-some World's Convention, and there. solutions were those condemnatory of the proceedings (in that particular instance) of that body, together with those approving of the formation of the British India Society.—But that part of the report in which we endeavored to show that duty required abolitionists to abstain from the use of slave labor productions, and the resolutions relating to our principles, have been passed by as of no moment. From the notice the anti-slavery press has generally taken of our last meeting, strangers to our object would not dream of our being a “Free Produce Association,” but would set us down as a “Society for condemning the exclusion of female delegates from the World's Convention, and for the approving of the British India Society,” or some similar association.

B. S. J.