Hillsdale Meeting: For The Signal Of Liberty
Pursu.int to notice, tJje friends of Liberty met in the villago of Hillsdule, and organized by appointing Joseph B Dawley, President, and D. M. Bagley, Secrctary. The following persons were nominated delegates to attend the Anniversary of the State Anti-Slavery: James N. Raymond, Enos II. Rice, Ethel Judd, Lemuel Long, J. B. Dawley, D. M. Bagley, 1. Chase, Jeremiah Stone, Pardon Aldricb, Job A. Smith, W. W. Jackson, Samuel Round.s, Benjamin Stevens, Harris Stevens, Wm. Savago, Wm. D. Moore, D. G. Fuller, Lyman Pease,] Joseph Woolson, B. B. Willets, iMüses WiJlets, Lucius A. Webster. L. Long, of Litch field, W. V. Jackson, of Adams, J. M. Raymond, of Hillsdale, L. A. Webster, of Allen, Eihcl Judd, of Adams, B. B. Willets, of Cambria, and Wm. Savage, were added tothe Counfy Committee. The proceedings were ordered to be published in the Signal of Liberty. â The Convention then adjourned sine die. J. B. DAWLEY, Pres. D. M. Baglky, Sec. Several of the Presbyterian Chuiches i aro discussing modiiications of thcir forni J of government, so as to bring the elders and dpacons more porfectly into iho position of representativesof the peoplo. The plan generally propo.sed, is the substhuticm ofeleclion Ãbr a term, instead of for lile. Rev. Dr. Cox's church in Brooklyn, aftersevcrnl iTieelings for discussion, resolved on Monday evening, that oneihird of tlio nnmber of their elccrà and deacons should go out of offico directly, and that hereafter a third should go out every two ycans, and new elections be made to fill their places. The nominalions for new elections are to be made by a joint comtniilee, ono halfto be appoinN od by the Church, and the other half by the session: the lato incumbents bcing
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