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Effingham Capron was in the chair.
Of the proceedings1 there is little need to say much here, further than that Mr. Garrison read the annual report—his own. The most notable immediate effect of the convention was Quincy's renunciation of oaths and allegiance to all manmade government, signalized the morning afterwards by2 his returning his commission as justice of the peace to3 Governor Everett.
The most notable resolution adopted was one declaring that ‘the abolition of slavery is 4 involved in the doctrines of Non-Resistance, as the unit is included within the aggregate: for if a slaveholder [should] become non-resistant he could never again strike a slave, never compel him to labor; never reclaim him if he chose to leave him; in a word, never resort to that law of violence in which the relation of master and slave originated, and by which it must be continually sustained.’
The Century Company. , 1885-1889.
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