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A Call From The State Corresponding Committee

A Call From The State Corresponding Committee image
Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
January
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Deail Brethrn: - As the time is now at hand for us to petition our State Legislaturefor redressof grievances; we have prepared to send in a State Petition, Therefbre we earnestly cali upon you to commence immediately to hold your public meetings, and collect the names of all thecolored men (if possible) in the State, and send them in to the Wayne Co. committee at Detroit, to be attached to the form of petition, whieh is.nowbeingdrafted by them. Then come, brethren, let us arouse from our lethargy, for we have a mighty work to perform, which can only be done by our own united action. - We have got to revolutionize public opinión; and how are we to do it! "Give me a place on which to stand," said the Syracusan Mathematician, "and with my lever I will move the world." Brethren, we have just that place to stand upon. - There isyet a private & public conscience in the hearts of the Law-makers of this State; upon it we may stand and pour a burning flood of light over their minds, and revolutionize their thoughts, and thus move the State within them. For ourselves. and in ourselves, there is a mighty work to be. done; an influence to be exerted which can only be done by us. Then let us be ready at the first opening of the Legislature, to cast in our petitions; for upon our own action depends our political salvation. HENRY JACKSON, 7 W. LAMBERT, . of Detroit, RICHARD GORDEN, Wayne Co M. J. LIGHTFOOT, ASHER ARAY, 3 of Pittsfield, J. W.BROOKS, CWash. Co. THOMAS FREEMAN, of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County.JEFFERSON FITZGERALD, of York, Washtenaw County. JOHN SMITH, of Pontiac, Oakland Countv. THOMAS JOHNSON, of Monroe, Monroe County. CALVIN HACKETT, of Jackson, Jackson County. A. C. WEST, of Marshall, CaJhoun County. SAMUEL DICKERSOÑ, of Lenawee County. HEÑRY POWERS, of Kalamazoo, Kalamnzoo County. JOHN SCOTT, of Grand Rapids,Kent County. State Corresponding Committee. N. B. The above committee were appointed at our late State Convention to appoint public meetings, cnll future Conventions, and transact public business for the colored citizens of this State, until the next Convention. Therefore we hope that our Brethren will feel their interest in the cal!.

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