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Ingham And Eaton County Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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unlies of Ingham and Eaton, will hola a Conntion at the house of Johnson Montgomeiy, ar the village of Eaton Rapids, on the first reduesday of September next, at 12o'clock, A. . for the purpuse of making a suitable w] m for the office of representativo in place of the on. JohnM. French, whose term of office will " pire on the first of January next; also such her business as niay come before tho Convenn. U Friends oflibertyand equal rights! Though c-l' ir nunibers are few, yet be assured that c ity of discipline, valor and the justice of our B use are more certain pledges of victory than P1 untless undisciplined hosts. Remember that the er mrtan band at Thermopyite, though abo ut one w seven thousand, by valor, pariotism, and a ly votedlove of liberty, saved Greece from two Jj illions of invadcrs. Liberty was the watchword ar hich trsnsformed the Roman soldiery from unsciplined bnsbarians into those invincible hf ons that gave laws to earth's remotest bounds. m et us come to the Convention, then, and cord=ly unile our hearts and hands in tho glorious V1 use of liberty, and with a determination to do C I in our power. Not only by moral suasion. th it by political action, to eraso this foul stain M ?m our national escutcheon. And let us reember that our standard of liberty is ever lo be „ ifurled in the politica! field for the se ent of our object, and for the defence of our w use end our country, and when thus unfurled, ar ver tb be surrendered but wiih thai vital spark as nch animales the American bosom, to all that foi ble daring of which liberty is the appropriate ar Ulo. Let ezeryfriend of liberty and humanitu S present. J J By order of the District Corresponding ed ttee. ha LppVic. Aiiffust. 17. 1842.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News