The Late Central Committee To Liberty Friends

On the first nge you wlll finJ our rclort of the Stnte fund of 146, and our iccount of ex pendil u res. We spread ii jefore you in such detnil, that every doa"r can trace hisdonation to iho proposed bject - the support of a leciuring and focumentary sysiem. We believe that the smallest donution paid to Us, or our agent, liowever indiiectly, forms part of the aggregnte sum placel to our debit. Our account gives a glance nt what we have done. Wlieiher done wisely or nol. by a system npproved or disipproved, we will not pretend 10 consider. Dne il has been : done in good f;ith and to the best of our ability : nt a cosí of time and uncharged money none but oursflves will ever know, and by a system so far npproved, :s to secure pledges of commeusurate support. Wc placad in the fit ld four lecturcrs. We crenied in Cass nd Berrien a lund, which also plnced Mr. St. Clair there. For a slvirt time we engaged Mr. Moody. Our syttm and request eneouraged friends to volun'et'r as lellow Inborers in many parts, and our chnirnmn spent six weeks in eontributing his sharc to the common eiTrt.Very imiiy valuab'e docnmcnts have foren scnttered tlirougl) the Sia'e. Jny, Spoyner, (JomieH, Birney, The (Jincinnali Ad(lres, Slnverv as t ií, extrn SignaK andsuc') like. have been circulated ti the utmost of iur meins. At t'iis mment they are silenily woiking iheirdestiny. They nrë enlightening a trutliseeking, and a thinking people, and are awnkpning that antislavery sentiment which hnsalrendy. regenerated society ; whicb has elevated slavery to pre-eminent discussion ond con.signed the bank. the tarifl', and other minor questions to their nppropriate places of comparative insignificance. In what way the se6d thus sown will yield fruit, he alone knows, who overrulen .VI things to tle glory of 'ois own grent principies. Suílice it f.ir us to know thai duty has been done, ond that in time, we shnll reap our harvest, when American slavery shall fall before the doeree of chiistianand enlightcne-l principie - fall too, without violation of law, or violence to the brotherly conidcratin we owe to ourcrringfelluw ctizenof the South - theslaveholder. All see;l, however, requirps time to expand, vegetatp, ripen and yield fruit. - Be ye, friends patiënt : steady to the work, and full of fath. In due season your harvest will conw : eonoft ne it didto the Briliáh slave : come as it did to the disfranchised non-conibrmiats : to the coro law victiin, and 10 ihe enslavod ihe woilJ (our own land excepled) wherevpr ehristianiy Or enlightnmoni (enelrated the d-irkness of Barba Han ig norance. Let notour friends be too greedy for the fruits of our pnït eflbrr. Truth must rest long on the mind, ere it works ils destiny. I must be urged ngain and ngain. It must receive the comments of time, and the suggesiions of ench day's experience. It must have a time and a peason o developo its action. Many, who first heard antislavery truth from our lecturers or read t from our books, 511 f hink the subject over at their firesides, u their field works : or in the stillness tif niglit. Some passing event will nt last ndd what is needed of weiglit to turn over tlioir nicely bnlanced doubt, ond some national elcction will to them first present ihe time, at which their seme of duty sh-ll cali for aclion. Let us all then nwait in patiënte the resul t of '46. But another nnd less pleasing duty than ihe promu'galion of tlie.-e triithsj claim our fittention. Ve are obliged to nsk our friends to look at the reMiIt of the ngency s) stem, as affecling ourselves, nnd antislavery credit. On the faiih of pledges we have worked ; made engagements ; nd paid our money. T'ie pledgps were tiotsiirnulated hy any machi nery. - Thpy flowed spontaneous from tho mere projf ciion of the systern. It was repeatedly df-sired thnt no person should be solicilcd, mie that sucli pledgos only should i lie taken ásenme voluntarily, and would be ceriainly redeemed in September or Ociobcr. Individuals pledged themselves to act as town chairmen : to col'ecl and remit subscriptïóhsl The result is befo re you, 81156,20 wasplpdgd: SG74.71 hns been paid : $481,49 is due. Our expendiiur; and liabiÜtirs are $1222.90. No pprsonnl expenses of the Commiuee are chargfd but merely cash paid out or to be p.üd. We are aware that unexpected events have defeoted the expectations of many. A scason of unusüal sicknes, and a depiession of the grain valúe have uniteó to render money senree. We can tliorefb'ïè rnndily allow for much deficiency. - But after every due allowance. is there not room Tor much ío be done, that has not been done ? DeJuciing the Detroit suhscripiion, $1031,90 remains subscribed by the State, and of it but $516,71 has ïecn paid. More ihan a half is yet unlaid. Flave our friends the Chairmen every where gone round to collo t iheir town plerlges ? Have lliy called a second time on those who were absent or not prepi.rcd at the first? H:ve they rem:ted tlie contribution paid ? Have our oiher friends, considering the labor of the town Chainnan, to hirn of their own accord.and paid up ?We will not pause on these quesiions, but will plead with our friends, for their considera t ton j ard their nction as duty mny sugge.st. We have ndvnnced our mentís, so far as able, on faith of pledges. When nt ihe limit of these means, we have been obliged 10 permit engngements fur our cause to lie dishonored. Thus are we placed in situations unpleasant and embarrassing. The burthen which concentrates on us, is üght when scaltered over the State. It is easier for five hundred persons lo pay otie dollar each, due by them, than for one, two, or three indiviHuals to advance the whole $500. Many persons find it difficult to spare tinieto make collections. Others cannt let their grain go nt present prices. - More think they are unnble to pny at all what they promiscd. To all who net on tti is reasoning we cay, that they but shift i on to us, what they shriuk from. Ours must be the loss in time, from low pricc-s, j und irom innbility. TFe raust pay at any rnte, nlhough the low prices hffei-t us, our business and our msans, s fully as thev do the farmer.Besides, is not ours a cause of sacrifice ? - sncrifiee of time, rnoney, and personal labor? What cause is not ? The luxurrous, tlie dissipated, the drinker, the otdinary liver, hesitate not 1o give of their time, money and labor, to promole ïheir several rnds. Shnll the loyer of principíente philanthropist and the christin n do othenrise to aceomplish the high duties ; the performance of which, heart and conscience alike dictafe ? We dn not cxhort where we ourselves have not praclised, and can assure our friend3 of our sympathy with them, even while we present the demnnd on them. We cannot conclude this our farewell address without scying, that if we met some disappointment last yenr, we also p.xperienced much to gladden and cheer. Warm friends : devoied spirits, and kind svmpnthies co-operated with our effort in several places. Mony liberal donations were given, aad very manv Chairmen advanced their town pledge, preferring that they and not wc, should be the unpaid. And when it was ascertained ihat a deficieney would in ony event accrue, many of these same fice givers and free workers, ngain contributed to the extra fund. In the hands and heart of such, the cause of the slave can never perish.To meet this balance of 8519,19 we Imvd unpaid pledges, amounting, aa per our icpojt to 8481,49 but in reality beingbut $451,19, as appears by the supplemenr. We have classod this sum, after careful examination of it, item by item as Ibllovvs :Addíng to Iho good one half of the deubtful, itleaves $131,35 which wesball probably rcceivc on lhe original pledges. This sumdeducted i'rom 8518.19 the balance of our account, leaves $337,94, necessary to clear our evpenditures, and for ts liquiílation ve can depend only on the extra contributions of all who feel able and wüling to share in the necessay burthens of the cause. As stated at fot of ouraccou.it, $66 have beon subscribed extra, and $31 paid. ín conclusión wesolicit 11 our friends - the town chairmen, that they will see to the collection of the balances yet due by their towns, and remit to us : those in arreare, tlnit they will pay in to their chairmen or remit to us : and friends every where that they will not suffer us, an individual or individuals, to bear lhe whole of the largti sum expended for our coranion cnuse : and this too in addition to our contributióna to the State fund, as membersof the party, and all our time and personal expenses ns a Committee representing the party at large. C. 11. Sl'KWART, II. II AL LOC K, J. D. BA LD WIN, S. M. HOLMES, W. CANFIELD, Late Central Commitlcc. Detroit, March 20, 1847.Wc the undersigned, auditorsappoinled at the la(o anniversary of Uie Michigan AntisJavery Society, lo audit the accounts of the Central Cormnitlee, hereby cerliiy that the Commiitoe lias presenied to us their account of expenditures lid üabilities. amounting to $1222,00 : Thai the Commitlee has vouched the payment ofnine hundred and seventy dollars eleven cents the reo f by receipts produced to us : that they have stated that one hundred and seventy-eight dollars forty-four cents are unjiaid bscause of want of iund, and that seventy-three dollars thirty-on cents the residue of said .'iccount, is acually paid in sundry small items, though nol yet reeeipted, which iho undersigned are saiisfid is the facr, and they accordingly audit and allow tno said account as ibove, holding the Committee responsibie to diecharge the jet i'npaid items, when infunda fortbe purpose.