Messrs Editors:ー
According to your request and our instructions, I herewith send you a synopsis of the proceedings of the National Convention, which closed its sittings on Friday evening, 7 o’clock, P.M.
Yours for God and Liberty,
William H. DayDay, William Howard

William Howard Day (1825-1900). Day was born in New York City. He attended a high school in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he became interested in printing. Possessing considerable skill in Latin and Greek, he was accepted to Oberlin College, from which he graduated in 1847. Day then settled in Cleveland. Soon after, he began to work on repealing the Black Laws of Ohio, calling a convention of African Americans, which met in Cleveland in 1848. He served as chairman on the council that initiated plans for the National Convention of Colored Freemen, of which Frederick Douglass later served as president. This convention served as the forerunner of the more famous meeting of 1853 that took place in Rochester. Day worked as a compositor for the Cleveland Daily True Democrat in 1851-52 before launching his Aliened American, which served as a strong advocate of abolition and social justice for blacks. Moving to Canada to improve his health, Day printed John Brown’s revolutionary provisional constitution for the United States, which was to be implemented if Brown proved successful at Harpers Ferry. Day traveled extensively overseas and founded the African Aid Society with Martin R. Delany. While in Europe, he was welcomed by the lord mayor of Dublin and spoke to several women’s organizations. Returning home after five years, Day became an inspector of schools for freedmen in Maryland and Delaware and founded 140 schools. In 1867 Day was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. I. Garland Penn, The Afrro-American Press and its Editors (Springfield, Mass., 1891), 74-76; ANB, 6: 275-76. .