Political Meeting.
At a political meeting of the colored citizens of the borough of Marrietta, Lancaster, county, Pennsylvania, held in the Hall of the Sons of Temperance, on Tuesday evening, the 23d inst., which was organized by the appointment of Mr. Wm. SingerSinger, William

William Singer (c. 1808-?) was a Baltimore born laborer living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Not much else is known about him. 1850 & 1860 U.S. Census, Marietta, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. , Chairman, and Mr. John B. WilliamsWilliams, John B.

, Secretary.
The meeting was very ably addressed by Messrs. L. A. WilliamsWilliams, Leonard A.

Leonard A. Williams (c. 1815-?) was a minister who went to Liberia in 1851. Born in Maryland, Williams was a clergyman from Columbia, Pennsylvania, who went with a group of about seventy people from Reading to Baltimore to embark for Liberia. They were joined by some thirty more there before leaving for African shores. There, he seems to have discovered a coal deposit. “Letter from Liberia,” Lewistown (Pa.) Gazette, 2 January 1852, p. 2, c. 6; “Emigration to Liberia,” Baltimore Weekly Argus, 10 May 1851, p. 3, c. 1; “Coal Discovered,” New York Commercial Advertiser, 25 November 1859, p. 1, c. 6; 1850 U.S. Census, Columbia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Thomas Fulller, Journal of a Voyage to Liberia (Baltimore: John D. Toy, 1851), 5; Charles L. Blockson, The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania (Jacksonville, N.C.: Flame International, Inc., 1981), 88. , H. H. Webb, and Wm. H. WilsonWilson, William H.

William H. Wilson (1808-82) was a shoemaker from Maryland and was known to be one of the leaders of the Underground Railroad in Columbia. By 1872, he was living in Detroit. “William Wilson,” Michigan, Deaths, 1867-1897, 1882, p. 222, r. 274/5, familysearch.org; 1850 U.S. Census, Columbia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Hubbell & Weeks’ Annual City Directory of the…City of Detroit, 1872-3 (Detroit: Hubbell & Weeks, 1872), 509; Charles L. Blockson, The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania (Jacksonville, N.C.: Flame International, Inc., 1981), 88. , of Columbia, Pa. The Speakers explained at great length the call, object and action of the recent Colored Convention held at Harrisburg in December last, for the purpose of obtaining a repeal of the word "white" from the 3d article of the Constitution of this State. He also appealed to the meeting in the most eloquent strains, beseeching them by their love of liberty, justice and equality, to use every effort in their power to secure for themselves and the rising generation that political equality which is the rich boon of the favored citizens of Pennsylvania. The speeches of these gentlemen produced quite an animating effect upon the audience; after which, the following resolutions were presented, discussed, and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting do most cheerfully concur in the object of said Convention, and will most zealously unite with our brethren throughout the county and the State in the Promotion of measures for its attainment.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the North Star, signed by the Chairman and Secretary.
Wm. Singer, Ch'n.
John B. Williams, Sec'y.
Marietta, Jan. 24.