in the towns over which the authority of the Commiſſioners extended.[1]
The other exception to which we have referred is to be found in the following declaration againſt ſlavery by the Quakers of Germantown, Pennſylvania, in 1688. Theſe were a "little handful" of German Friends from Cresheim, a town not far from Worms, in the Palatinate.
We are indebted to the curious and zealous reſearch of Mr. Nathan Kite, of Philadelphia, for the publication of this intereſting memorial. It appeared in The Friend, Vol. xvii., No. 16, January 13, 1844. The paper from which Mr. Kite copied was the original. At the foot of the addreſs, John Hart, the clerk of the Monthly Meeting, made his minute, and that paper having been then forwarded to the Quarterly Meeting, received a few lines from Anthony Morris, the clerk of that body, to introduce it to the Yearly Meeting, to which it was then directed.
"This is to the monthly meeting held at Richard Worrell's:
"Theſe are the reaſons why we are againſt the traffic of men-body, as followeth: Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner? viz., to be ſold or made a ſlave for all the time of his life? How fearful and faint-hearted are many at ſea, when they ſee a ſtrange veſſel, being afraid it ſhould be a Turk,- ↑ Compare Arnold, i., 240. We omit his miſtaken deference to Maſſachuſetts in regard to the Act of 1646—ſo long miſunderſtood or miſrepreſented as a proteſt againſt ſlavery. See ante, pp. 28–30. Alſo Bancroft, i., 174, and Hildreth, i., 373.
