Meeting at West Randolph.
Friend Douglass:—
A meeting was held at the Baptist church in West Randolph, on the evening of the 10th inst., agreeably to a call of the Rev. Mr. Howard, pastor, of said church, requesting the entire christian community of Randolph, and its vicinity, to take part in the meeting.
The object was to take into consideration the encroachment of Government on civil and religious liberty. Owing to the gadness of the weather, roads, and politics, the meeting was not large; but a spirited and almost unanimous condemnation was passed upon the Fugitive Slave Law.
A committee drafted and presented to the meeting a petition to Congress, which was approved and 70 copies ordered printed for circulation. Mr. Clay's sanctification of slavery and the peace measures, will prevent the reading of such a petition in Congress this session. But if you should think it worth printing in your paper, some dough faces and some slaveholders may chance to read it. And perhaps it would do good to honest but bewildered, or half convicted abolitionists. I herewith enclose you a copy.
Yours for progress,
Wm. ShattuckShattuck, William

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Randolph, N.Y., Dec. 16th, 1851.