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Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, November 3, 1863: To Take Into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the SouthOn motion of Stephen Col well, Esq., President of the "Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association, " the Right Rev. Bishop Potter was called to the Chair, and Mr. J. Miller McKim and Mr. Ellis Yarnall were appointed Secretaries.At the request of the Chairman, the Proceedings were opened by prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Spear.Bishop Potter then said:Ladies and Gentlemen:I need not state the object for which we are assembled. Some eighteen months since the first public meeting was held in this city to consider the necessities of those people of African descent who, on the coast of South Carolina, had been separated from their masters and from their accustomed employments and support, by the fortunes of war. That meeting was followed by systematic arrangements, and by generous contributions for their physical wants and their moral and religious training.Since then this class of persons has greatly multiplied. Along our whole Southern coast, from Fortress Monroe to St. Augustine, at the mouth and on both banks of the Mississippi, on the Tennessee and Cumberland and over immense tracts of country, they have been liberated and thrown, without guide or friend, upon the world. Under circumstances most demoralizing and, in many respects, most discouraging, this long suffering race have been on their trial; their temper, their capacity, their virtue' - all have been subjected to the severest strain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, November 3, 1863
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