either of such committees to call a special meeting of the Executive Committee whenever occasion may seem to require it. The sub-committees to report monthly to the Executive Committee.

9. A Vigilance Sub-committee to be appointed to watch all judicial proceedings in the case of persons arrested on the charge of being fugitive slaves; promote suits for freedom; secure the punishment of kidnappers; aid efforts to secure personal freedom; attend to the proceedings of the State Legislatures, as well as the Congress of the United States, affecting the rights of individuals, whether free or bond; and suggest such measures as shall most effectually secure the objects contemplated by the Society.

10. The general agents of the Society, lay and clerical, to be men of acknowledged piety, but not limited to any single denomination of Christians; with competent knowledge and ability, and good address. Their duties shall be, lecturing, preaching, visiting important individuals, organizing auxiliary Associations, soliciting and collecting subscriptions and donations, and receiving orders for the publications of the Society. Each agent to have a letter of instructions defining his duties, and a commission from the Executive Committee.

11. The local agents to be of the same description as the general agents; to undertake services for limited periods, within limited districts; and to be supplied with letters of instructions, and the publications of the Society. The general and local agents to promote discussions on the most important branches of the Anti-slavery question, and the best means of securing the abolition of slavery; and also to introduce the questions into Lyceums, Debating Societies, &c., &c.

12. In addition to the general duties of the agents, both general and local, they will be expected to promote meetings for conference, conventions and mass meetings, and attend the same whenever practicable, as well as the meetings of the large ecclesiastical bodies, when convenient.

13. The colporteurs to be earnest, intelligent, and well-principled men, whose principal duty should be the sale or gratuitous circulation of Anti-slavery books and pamphlets, under the direction of the Committee on Publications. They should visit from house to house, and hold meetings in school districts, or other small neighborhoods, and should particularly endeavor to introduce the publications of the Society into every school district and neighborhood throughout the country.

The colporteurs, as a general rule, to precede the general agents in their visit, and prepare the people for the same.

14. Where local agents cannot be procured, corresponding members should be sought out and appointed, to give their services gratuitously, but whose expenses should be paid.

15. The Executive Committee, as occasion requires, to promote petitions to Congress, memorials to Government, to be presented by deputations or otherwise, and to invite local Associations to bring the same machinery to bear on the State Legislatures and Executives.

16. The formation of Female Anti-slavery Associations should be attempted in every direction, as one of the most potent means for the overthrow of slavery, and for training the young in right views of duty.

17. Concerts for prayer to be organized wherever practicable, at which short addresses might be made, enforcing anti-slavery duties on Christian principles. 18. A spirited and able monthly organ of the Society to be established, to be entitled "The American Anti-slavery Register," exclusively devoted to the promotion of the Anti-slavery cause, to be edited and published at a reasonable price for cash in advance, under the direction of the Executive Committee, to contain the latest anti-slavery information, important facts, documents, &c. The Register to be sold at a reduced price to individuals and auxiliary Associations, for distribution or loan, at their discretion.

19. Every judicious effort to be made by the Society and its agents and friends to feed the press, both secular and religious, with anti-slavery information, particularly with facts illustrative of the system of slavery in this country.

20. A series of Anti-slavery tracts to be issued monthly, either reprints or

original compositions, embracing the whole range of Anti-slavery questions, to be got up in a popular form and style, with special reference to facts.

21. A select series of pamphlets to be published, (1) On the encroachments of slavery; (2) On the unconstitutionality of slavery; (3) On the Fugitive Slave Act; (4) On the Bible against slavery; (5) On the implication of the churches in the sin of slavery; (6) On the duty of Christians in relation thereto; (7) On the expurgations of anti-slavery literature, and such other topics as may be considered of peculiar interest or permanent importance.

22. Premiums to be offered for tracts or pamphlets on special topics, having reference to the present state of the Anti-slavery cause in the several States, in Congress, and in the Church, with a view to meet objections, &c., &c.

23. An illustrated series of Anti-slavery publications, mostly for children and youth, to be issued.

24. The Society to issue a series of addresses, (1) To the Abolitionists throughout the country; (2) To the women of the United States; (3) To the young men of the country, inviting their coöperation; (4) To the people of color; (5) To American missionaries, and other Americans in foreign countries; (6) To the churches throughout the country; (7) To the members of Congress; (8) To the friends of the Anti-slavery cause throughout the world.

25. It is proposed to establish a weekly newspaper in the city of Washington, to be published in the German language, and edited by Mr. Frederick Schmidt. There are four millions of people in this country who constantly speak the German language, of whom about two millions are natives of Germany, and the other two millions descendants of German emigrants. There are a large number of newspapers in the country already in the German language, but none of them advocating the Anti-slavery cause on Christian principles.

The Committee have received numerous letters from Christian Abolitionists in various parts of the country, and from American missionaries abroad, entreating them to go forward with renewed zeal and courage, relying upon the promises of God and the aid of their fellow-countrymen at home and abroad, with promises of liberal aid from men converted from heathenism to Christianity, who feel for the outraged colored man, who, in this country, is doomed to slavery, or who is the victim of prejudice. After anxious and prayerful deliberation, the Com. mittee are disposed to enlarge their operations if their brethren professing the same sentiments will afford them the means, and sustain them in their labors. They cannot and will not believe that the slave-power is to be for ever paramount-that this country is to be the theatre of perpetual slavery-that the principles of our forefathers are always to be set at naught-that the sentiments and feelings of the civilized world are to be disregarded-that the "Higher Law" is ever to be repudiated by the expounders and professors of religion, and the God of freedom to be continually insulted by outraging those made in his image. The Almighty has declared that he is the God of the oppressed: the apostle James has declared, "Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth;" and that Being by whose inspiration and authority the apostle spake, has called upon men to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. He works, be it ever remembered, by human instrumentality. Let, then, Christian Abolitionists, while they address their prayers to Him, DO THEIR DUTY, and they may expect that He will say to them, in the language of providence, "Be it unto you according to your faith and corresponding action."

One of the correspondents referred to has written so ably and appropriately, that the Committee cannot refrain from making a large extract from his com

munication:

"Our agitation for constitutional liberty and emancipation has been for a long time desultory and transient in its effects, and yet expensive. If slavery is to be peacefully removed from our land, there must be, I think, very speedy and very thorough efforts to revolutionize the public mind. We must no longer act on the defensive before the encroaching acts and insults of the slave power: we lose immensely by this kind of effort. We must demand and move toeffect what is just in respect to the District of Columbia, inter-State slave-trade, Territories,

&c., and find enough for slaveholders to do at home, so that Cuba, Mexico, and other flibustiering abroad will be abandoned. By resolute, persevering efforts on the part of Free Democrats in Massachusetts, New-York, Ohio, to resume our rights and reëstablish freedom wherever Congress has the power, we should attract great numbers of wavering minds at the North. The almost universal feeling that nothing can be done against the slave power, which grows partly out of our defensive movement, holds multitudes back from doing what they might. A bold, determined front is needful to give the prestige of success, and the hope of success is worth a great deal always.

"Now my conviction is, that there never has been a time when the public mind can be as rapidly changed as now.

"(1.) For fifteen years, labor has taught and prepared us how to agitate. "(2.) The people, especially in the rural districts, are willing, nay, anxious to hear anti-slavery truths and discussions.

And it is to be remembered that two thirds of our countrymen, notwithstanding all that Abolitionists have done, are yet deplorably ignorant of the character and workings of slavery.

"(3.) We have very able men in both Houses of Congress willing to be coöperators with us.

"(4) Uncle Tom' is every where wonderfully regenerating mind, and preparing thousands to become politically anti-slavery.

"(5.) The Whigs and Democrats are in a state of disorganization. They must to all human appearance soon break up.

"(6.) Large sections of the Northern Methodist churches are moving with the avowed purpose of casting slavery out of their communion. Different parts of the Congregational Church are also taking higher and juster ground, and I think it partially true of other sects.

"It is a critical as well as an auspicious time. Will you not see to it that our friends move in this thing?"

THE JANE TRAINER CASE.

As a matter of history, it is well to record the principal facts in relation to this long-contested and exciting case. The reports in the newspapers have given sometimes inaccurate, and at least imperfect statements of the facts.

Rose Cooper, a large and showy woman, apparently about forty years of age, born a British subject, has resided in Mobile, Louisville, and San Francisco, in each of which places she has kept a house of ill-fame. Charles W. Trainer, a free mulatto, and a carpenter by trade, born in Mobile, married Emma, a slave of Cooper, about fifteen years since. Both of them are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were married by a colored preacher named Douglass; cohabited together, sometimes in the house of Cooper, and had several children, all of whom are deceased, except Henry, whose freedom has been purchased, and Jane, who was born May 29th, 1844. On going to California, Cooper sold Emma to a negro-trader, and put Jane out until her return. A merchant of this city saw Cooper come aboard a vessel at Panama dressed in sailor's clothes. She was recognized, and a shout went up, "Huzza for Rose of Alabama!" Charles and Emma, on her return to Mobile, offered Cooper four hundred dollars for Jane, which she refused, saying she was going North, and on her return, which would be about Christmas, 1852, she would do what they wished. She hired the child out to a bad place, and it was cruelly whipped.

As she did not return, Charles pursued her, believing she intended to sell his child. Emma said to him, "We are poor, and all I can do is to pray to God for you night and day, till you can get back, that we may have our

child." On arriving at Cincinnati, he learned afterwards that she had eluded pursuit by changing her name. She had assumed the name of Porter-the name of a man some ten or fifteen years younger than herself, a well-known drunkard and rowdy, whom she was, as she said here, about to marry. Charles, on learning the above fact, gave chase a second time, and, on reaching Cincinnati, learned that Rose Cooper, alias Rose Porter, had left that city with a little girl but a day or two previous to his arrival. May 9th, the following telegram was received by Mr. Lewis Tappan :

CINCINNATI, May 9th. Rose Porter, for California via New-York, stole colored girl nine years old, named Jane Trainer. WM. H. BRISBANE."

Jacob, a faithful colored man in such cases, was put in chase, and soon found that Rose was at No. 101 Mercer street, a notorious house, (recorded on the Police Office books,) with Jane. Another telegram was received from the impatient father:

"CINCINNATI, May 9th.

"Any tidings of Mrs. Rose Porter? The father of the child is here, anxiously waiting, and ready to come on. Please answer. J. W. HURON."

An answer was returned:

"The child is safe, and the woman in custody."

Judge Duer, of the Superior Court, had, on the application of E. D. Culver, Esq., granted a habeas corpus to bring up the child, and also a warrant to arrest the woman.

On May 10th, a return was made by Miss Cooper, signed and sworn to by the name of Rose Porter, who appeared with the child, a lively and intelligent girl, and W. D. Booth, Esq., her counsel. The return stated some of the facts already alluded to, and moreover that the child was not claimed as a slave, but came to this city with her "from motives of affection." It denies the lawful right of Trainer to the child, and asserts that he was never lawfully married to its mother. As the father had not arrived, the case was postponed, and Rose Porter required to give security in the sum of $250 for her appearance. Lewis Tappan, in the absence of Mr. Culver, respectfully asked the Court whether the amount was sufficient where the party was liable, if convicted of kidnapping, to be sent to the State prison. He also urged that the child should not be allowed to return to the house of infamy. The Judge having privately intimated that there were doubts whether he could hold the woman at all, and suggested that resort had best be had to the criminal court, Mr. Tappan proceeded immediately to the Tombs and made affidavit that Jane had been surreptitiously taken from Cincinnati, and asked for the arrest of Rose Porter. The application was granted by Justice Bogart, and the woman and child were brought before the Justice, attended by a younger brother of James T. Brady, Esq., the Irish counsellor. She was admitted to bail in the sum of $300.

On the 13th May, the parties appeared before Judge Duer, at the chambers of the Superior Court. The father of the child having arrived, attempted to speak to his little daughter. The woman did not object. Charles began to converse with his child in a low voice. The Judge said there must be no whispering. Under the imperious look of Rose Porter the child seemed to

recoil from her father, and cling to the woman, who was attended by James T. Brady, Esq., his brother, and W. D. Booth, Esq., as counsel. Mr. Culver having called Charles Trainer as a witness, Mr. Brady objected. He said the ground had been changed. The charge of kidnapping is abandoned, and it is now said that it is the case of a father claiming his child. By this means they claim to make the father a witness. Mr. Culver denied that the charge of kidnapping was abandoned. The Judge concluded to take the testimony of both Trainer and Cooper. Trainer testified to his marriage, to the kind of house kept by Cooper, and to the other facts already enumerated. Also, that he had sent Jane to school at his own expense as long as the teacher would instruct her. He had also taught her to fear God. The Judge said a new petition might be prepared, and he could allow another writ of habeas corpus. While the papers were preparing, Mr. Brady read from the statutes of Alabama to show that Charles and Emma could not have been lawfully married. Mr. Culver, in reply, maintained that they were married under the common law. By consent of parties, the criminal prosecution was abandoned. Mr. Tappan here affirmed to the information sent to him from Cincinnati.

The case was resumed on the 16th. The new petition was read. Mr. Brady adduced authorities, and contended that as his client had set the child free, as it was attached to her, and she intended to reform and bring up the child virtuously, she was entitled to its custody. He contended also that a free person of color and a slave cannot be legally married in Alabama. He attempted to show also that slaves are incapacitated there, by law, from marrying. The Judge remarked, "If that be the case, they can continue their race only by living in violation of the laws of God and man. Mr. Brady said he might regret, but could not help such a state of things. Miss Cooper was then examined. She testified to the licentious character of Trainer; (!) to her intentions of reforming; to her residing here at a house of ill-repute, etc. Trainer was missing to-day.

On the 18th, an affidavit of Mr. Tappan's was read, that Trainer had not been seen since the 14th; that a telegram had been received from him, dated Dunkirk, N. Y., which stated, "I was dragged off and beaten; and that is the reason I am in this place." A letter from Charles to Mr. Tappan was also produced. Mr. Brady pronounced it a "humbug." The Judge intimated that a new writ of habeas corpus had best be taken out, if Mr. Culver or Mr. Tappan would undertake to say, on oath, that they thought themselves authorized to act for the father. Miss Cooper left the court-room with Mr. Frederick Collier, son of the late Collector at San Francisco, Mr. Benjamin F. Newhouse, who keeps a cabinet warehouse, and other friends, Mr. Collier leading the child. Efforts were made to induce them to give up the child; but the friends of Charles were shoved aside by the friends of Miss Cooper. Mr. Collier mounted the coach-box with the driver, and she was driven away to her rendezvous in Mercer street. It appeared afterwards that she ordered the coachman (a colored man) to drive to New-Jersey; but he went three or four miles up the city, and finally brought her back, telling her and her friend Mr. Collier, that he would not take them to New-Jersey. She said she would not employ a colored coachman again.

The 20th May the case was resumed. Mr. Culver said, If the woman is ready to surrender the child, we will receive it and give good bonds. Mr.