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Communications: Wayne County Liberty Convention

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Day
17
Month
October
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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T lus Convention havmg assembled at Dearborn on the 8th inst, pursuant to cali, and ihc üelesaleslmvintr presented their credentia Hiram Bette of Redford, was unanirnuusly called to thechairand Charlea H. Stewart, of Detroit, appointed Secretary. Thechair stated that the Conveation was called to nominale candidates for the several county offices, to be filled at thG ensuing elections, and algo delégales to meet the countics of Macomb and St. Clair in convention, fornominatingr candidatos for Senators. After some informal nominations and canvassxag, the nominations after mentionpd vere unanirnously ngreed on. The Mlowlng resolutions been sevcraJJy proposed, and discussed, were also unanimously adopted. Resolved, That ihis Convention feels more rn.perat.veJy than ever lhe duty ag wel! as pohcy cf a separate organization to carry out lij politica! objecis, inasmuch as neither Wjs nor Democrats, as parlieS) 1]avo evcr ooe any thinr-nor dn tUn„ ■- Íintont.on to support a single principie, held by na to be paramount to all others Resolved, Tfia't toe may cali upon the whige ordemocrats to abandon their oiganïznüon, w.tli as much propriety and reason as thev ?al upon us to give up ours. Our object i's only to n-,vo effect in a constitutional mode, to pol.Ucal pnnciples which are in themselves ■ in stnct occordance with the constitutie, nn.iparamount to those of the other part es Resolved, That the allegafion, that ou'r objecis are nol feasible, is a vkionary tale of the same opposition, which attributed (o the antislavery party obnoxious doctrine., that not onIy never vvere thoirs, but vvere even most oudly conderaned by them 6nd we invlte those who deern our measures impracticable to at e„d our pubHc what our objects really are, ,„d there discus them, mstcad of ventina; assertions, which carry with thetn their own ridicule, because founded on error. Resolved, That we desire not to war u-th either whi?s er democrats. Our principies are not antagonist to either; bui the wb,V pres. ses and adrases having putforth certain issue,, as renson, why the Liberty fl!l Z S' We ÍnVÍÍC thG aitenl-n of al to (he view puohcly avowed of those isM.es,by Mr. Webster,.-, staunch and old whi tedtothena.ionalsecretarvship.inS P -h;premac},oft,fve relt rTam] OXPerienC C- Ithe respec of he naM.n. T'nat he shevvs, lst. That the late tariff, now cïaimed ns a whff niCilsurr )n,l „ . . . , u „ut u mnjoriiy of Whwá in its favor, would havepcrishe,', har! il feemld on whig support .ïonc; Snd, That the wj,fra hayonot ini.leawïse.butavery.viscie jTOMfc clccisivc étipréniacanrl a"o n.onti.s sossIOr,, .haying ,ivon u„, to passions, whose ex.stonco is fata] (o statosm.'insi.ip-s TjatUwasti.eTfaulMhecurrencvwasno; adjusted-h.Thataü. S. Bank ia a hopeleas Vision, uhoJJy u.lattáinab!e-(ret t] lv y Liberty men are" hopeas vionariM;I and if attainoble, uscless ond ina(!onl:rUe l6 the present ante-nih, That the uhigsconfroHing sodec?ivelyasiheyhave done congressionnl Pov,er, are responsie, that they abu.ed it, and did sq Jittle-Gtf,, That the whigs shoujd not have doserted the persen RQW occi,pyiI)g the proemial chair by thchsuihagc.-Ttl,, That theoJd party distinctions should be moderated, ana a goneroua union- I "■■■■irel of well ineaninff men on 11 sides should tnJío their place, and ath, That ti wh? party are now rallying for a protociive tnriffto counleract the mischief of the compromiso tariff, under the leadership of the very uut hor himself of that mischief policy-Henry Clay. Resolved, Thnt the whiff party, and especially the Delroit Advertiser of thid('ny,in pubüshinnr garbled statements oflho allecred opposition of Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, tothe Sd party, mislead the community as lo hs real sentiments; that he is an aboliüonïst of the most uncompromising character, and to )is anti-s!aVery principie addp, as all others mny do, his old politics: and he deems a third party uffhecessary, where to use his own langnarveid a letter addressed to the Secretary of this meeting, and read by him to us, the vhigs mnrch up n teolíd columns to the "pport of all the sluvery doctrines" andwtierc "the whigs generally assnmc these positions'' tfiat ís, of the A.'S. party. Resolved, Thatwhen the Whigs orDimocratsof Ihis State ehall so susfain our princiles, anrl m thcir support shall march "fheir olul columns," and shall send to Congress a riIdiñ as their representativo, we will lieerfuliy coincide with that respected and alented gentleman in the inexpediency of a hird party-but until ihen, never. Resolved, That the third party may be nxpedient or nnr-cccÈsary in one State, and et very necessary in another, that Mr. Giddiugsnbolition districí,(to which alone hisaddresses were made,) hnsyet no parallel in this State, where the noble Driírcióíes of lKlwfvfor which the revoluíiomsts of '7G fought and died have ever been crushed beneath political ephemera, and the demagoguism of interested pol[can6)fe nntil these principies enduring os time, shall be supnorted in this State, as they are in Mr.Gidding's district, we will continue our orgnnizalion. Resolved, That this our cterminatíor: has received additional impulse in the fnct, that both political parties are ralling unüer slavehaveholding candidates for president, and we deem it a deep disgrace to republican America, to put forlh to the gaze of the world in the veryhighest office she can filWher servant who buys and selJs man- tlius to cover h?mself witli the ignominy of sentiments avowed and practiced by her representative; for evpry constituencyis known by its renresentativo.Resolved, That the cali for abánelo nment o our party comes vvith ill-grace from those who refuse to pay our feeVmgs tlie slight res ecU-oúr objeets, the srnall concession, of the incumbent of our highest office, Trom others, than slaveholders. Resolved, That thoomission of either party to profess any one ofonr prinoiples-vcn the defence of the liberfy of speech- is decisive evidoncp, that wJmtever individual feelng may be, thal of nartv h advoco fn BWDJ.ry liberty principie, and he who votes for democratie or whig meni nncI therefore casts hisvote directlyagainst our principies. I Resolved, That our political objects are these: To support the liberty of speech- to maintain rheconstlUition of the U. S.almoet daily violaled at the expense our lives, liberty nd property-io strike from our state coastitution color as a qualifleation for franchise- to interfere by conorressional íaw between him who claims man as lus property, and tlio claimed; the same safeguard that ís aïtewPilon the claim of a horse.cow, or log- trial by jury- tó save the free states frora the guïitj the expense, and disfrace of supporting the system of slavery- to pfólcct free fifórïftüm being, as it ever has been, sacrificed by Federal nclion fore support of slave labor- to rèscrtè the free states from the overweoninodowination assumed by the South, and to hntikh slavery wherever Congress can legally do it- these our objeets to be effected, penceably, by law, and within tbc constimtion- that we do uot, and never did seele to interfere with state?, whose sofereignty 7e adrtft, nor with their constituí oiial rights, nor do we hold those doctrines of violonce, robbery- or amnlgaination, our opponentsattributed tou?. And for support of these principies we offer (o the electors of Wéyne the follown ticket. Représentaïivés, IIORACE UALLOCK. of Detroit, ALOIS'ZO SIJEHLY, Gí.ODE D. CHüï, ofWanlcin, HIRAM BETTS, of Redford, RUFOS TU AYER, of Plymoth, ANTÍIOIYV ?ADTOCK,of Livoni Sheriff) WÍLLIAM E. PETERS. Ttcasurer, WATTHEVV W. BlfíCHARD. Counly Clerk, MARTIN WïLSON. ttcgialèr, JOSEPH D. BALDVVIK. Survryor,Cor oiiers. NEWELL FRtlNClh WELLS BARTSOUGH. T)e Convention also appointefí delectes to represent thé coimty at the SeaalorhJvent ion, am gave power to the corresnöndini? committee to fi] anv vacancy n t,;o above ticket. Resolved, Th.it tés thanks of the Convention be and are hereby givoti to the eewral newspaper editors in the city of Detroit for theircourte?yinpnbiishingthenoticc of t,)Ig meetm?, in tho absence of an orgnh'of our party ,n the counly-a liborality and kindness we appreciateand frcely acknowledge. The Gonvention Uien ndjourned.

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