British & Foreign Anti Slavery Society For the Abolition of Slavery & the Slave Trade Throughout the World 27 New Broad Street, London. At a meeting of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society, held at No 27 New Broad Street, on Friday Oct 6, 1844—George Stacey Esq, in the Chair, It was resolved Unanimously, That considering the enormous wickedness of American Slavery, whether viewed in relation to the iniquity of its principle, which deprives nearly three millions of human beings of their personal rights; or to the atrocity of its practice, which subjects them to the deepest degradation and misery; this committee feel it to be their duty publicly, and warmly, to express their sympathy with those devoted friends of humanity, the Revd Charles T Toney, and Captain Jonathan Walker, who are now incarcerated in the prisons of Maryland and West Florida, for having aided, or attempted to aid, some of their enslaved countrymen in their escape from bondage; and to assure these Christian philanthropists, that they consider the cause for which they may hereafter be called to suffer, as honorable to them as men and as Christians; and the laws under which they are to be arraigned, as utterly disgraceful to a civilized community, and in the highest degree repugnant to the spirit and precepts of the gospel. On behalf of the Committee Thomas Clarkson President. John Scoble, Secretary. October 8th 1844— To Capt Jonathan Walker