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Liberty Congressional Convention--second District

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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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At a Conventiön of the friends of Lik erty, held the 12th day of June, an organtèation was èffected by calling Hom L. F; Stevens to the Chai f, and appoinU ng S; S. Nichols Secretary. After an addres3 to the Thron of Grace, a committee of three was apL )ointed to report business for the Conven ion, and as the principal object of the meeting was to nomínate a Representare to Congress, for the Second Congres sioüal District, onrriotioft, the Convention iroceeded first to an informa and after wards to a final ballot for said Represen ative. DR, EDWIN A. AT LEE, of Battle Creek, having received tha greatest number of votes, was on motionj unanimously nominated as tha choiee of his Convention. Erastus Hussey, of Battle Creekj S. B. Treadwell, of Jackson, and N. M. Thomas, of Schocicraft, veré appointed a Congressional Commifí ee for the ensuing year. The committee on Resolutions report ed the following, which, after full dis cussion, were unanimously adopted :1. Resolved, That we gratefully ao vnowledge the hand of Divine Provideno n carrying forward the Anti-Slavery ïnterprise, as we believe it cme important ink in the vast chain of causes by which ihe all-wise and benevolent Beiag will ultimátely redeem a revolted World from every form of sin and oppression. 2. Resolved, That when we consider the flood of light which has been spread abroad on the subject of slayery, and th truth that nations have become their owiï destroyers by making expedièricy and selfishness paramount to jiistict, we tremble for our own country when we think of the oppressed, and remember that "God is jüst, and that hisjustice will not sleep forever." 3. Resolved, Thai to vote for slavO-' holders, their apologists or supporters, ia order to abolish slavery, is absurd, or to vote for a fliing tp prevent stealing, or for any other flagrant offender, to counteract the sin he is guilty of.4. Resolced, That the plausible declaration of our opponents, that after vo-' ting for a siaveholder "once more," they intend to sustain the Liberty Ticket, is a mere pretence to win us from the path of duty, though Uxrshdlow to iüfluencé any abolitioifist not already prepared to put on the Texas Polk, or bite at the nakecf Clay kook. 5. Resolted, Thai the Northern peo-J ple of this Union, having always used- their numerical majority to make Slava States, and sustain slavery measures, have emphatically proved themsélves theslave makers and slave holders of this nation,while the South are but technically thef slave ovvners. 6. Resolved, That shoüld the Ñortherir people permit the annexation of Texas to the Union, without previously requiring the abolition of her slav code,posterity will assuredly cür'se their mem-" ories for the great wickedness of their acts.7. Resolved, That tíie cífstfnguishingí Tact that none of tlie presidential candidates, except the noble and upright Jamesr G. Birney, have mentioned slnvery as among their objectiems lo' the annexation of Texas, shows most conclusively how heartless they are on the subject of hu-' man liberty, and how untvorlhy the support of a liherty loving people. 8. Resolved, That the notninaiion by our opponents of their slaveholders for the office of President of the United State, is a convincing fact that they arö prepared to admit the claims of th Soütbr to command, and the duty of all others to? ooey. 9. Resolved, That knowingyasr we do, that when John Quincy Adams was ft candidato for President he received but five Southern votes, Webster and King,' not one, and that from 1816 to 183# (20 years,) out of 515, only Southern votes were cast for a Northern man for ihat office, we see plainly that until tho Slave Power shall be broken up, wt'haver no alternative but to work when slaven holders comrïand, and die of starvatiorr unless we ufeed ourseïves;" 10. Resolved, That ve hold it a duty incumbent upon every lover of liberty,' not only to advocate the cause of equal justice, and universal ernaneipation, but" to guard the rights of the people by deci dedly opposing high salaries, and xorbitant expenditures of government. 11. Resolved. That we believ the carrying out of th principies of the Liberty Party to the only guaranty f tkft perpetuit of our Rpublian Iastltu tions. 12. Resolved, That we caution all our Liberty frlends to keep their necke out of the horrible JPüZ, and their fefot frótf? the rairj Cfby.

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