So much for the views and principles of the declaration, now for the designs and measures as enumerated therein:
We shall organize anti-slavery societies, if possible, in every city, town and village in our land.
We shall send forth agents to lift up the voice of remonstrance, of warning, of entreaty, and of rebuke.
We shall circulate, unsparingly and extensively, anti-slavery tracts and periodicals.
We shall enlist the pulpit and the press in the cause of the suffering and the dumb.
We shall aim at a purification of the churches from all participation in the guilt of slavery.
We shall encourage the labor of freemen rather than that of slaves, by giving a preference to their productions; and
We shall spare no exertions nor means to bring the whole nation to speedy repentance.
The instrument closes by pledging the utmost of its signers to the overthrow of slavery-“come what may to our persons, our interests, or our reputations ”