Appendix, a.: Minutes of the Meeting referred to, at page 866, which called the Free Trade Convention.

free trade meeting.

A number of gentlemen from different States, having assembled at the house of Condy Raguet, No. 12 Sansom street, at his invitation, on the evening of Monday the 6th of June, 1831, for the purpose of conversing upon matters connected with the advancement of the principles of Free Trade, there were present the following individuals, namely,

On motion it was Resolved, that the Company do organize itself into a meeting for the purpose of deliberating upon the expediency of calling an Anti-Tariff Convention; whereupon, Clement C. Biddle was appointed Chairman, and Condy Raguet, Secretary.

The attention of the meeting having been called to an address recently published in the New York Evening Post, and written by Mr. Henry D. Sedgwick, a gentleman present at the meeting, it was unanimously

Resolved, That a Convention for the purpose of securing the efficient co-operation of the friends of Free Trade, throughout the United States, in procuring the repeal of the Restrictive System, be held at the Mansion House Hotel, in the City of Philadelphia, at 10 o’clock in the morning of Friday, the 30th day of September next; and that there be invited to the same, such citizens from all the States of the Union, without distinction of party, who are favourable to the object of the meeting, as may find it convenient to attend.

It was also

Resolved, That notice of the said meeting be published, and that editors throughout the United States, friendly to the cause of Free Trade, be requested to give it circulation.

On motion,

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to correspond with, and invite to the Convention, such friends of our cause as may reside at a distance.

Whereupon, the following gentlemen were appointed by the meeting, viz.: Messrs. H. D. Sedgwick, Biddle, Davis, Tidyman, and Raguet.

Resolved, That the said Committee be authorized to associate with them, such other individuals residing in other States, as they may deem proper.

And then the meeting adjourned, sine die.

Clement C. Biddle, Chairman.

Attest.

Condy Raguet, Secretary.