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Liberty National Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Presidencial election of 1848 is hastening on. It is lime the fait h ful friends of Liberty should meet to nominale true and tried men au their candidntes for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States. Tho National Corresponding Committpe have taken the best meansin tlieir power to ju-ige. botli of the sentiments of the penpJe and I the signs of the times, as to what course the true interests of the party and the permanentgood of the cause require; and they have concluded to cali the National Nominnting Convention to rr eet at Ihe City of HaiFalo, in the state of New York, on Wen'nesday, the 2Oth day of October, at 10 o'elock, A. M. It is thought best tliat the Convention should be organized as a MASS MEETING, to which all mémbers of 'hfl Iiïbevly party are fidly invitéd, to participate n its deliberations, ond conolusions. In voting on the nominations, however, each Slale Wil] be entitled to the same niimber of votes ihat t has in the electoral college, thai is, the number of its senators and representalives in Congress. It isbelicved that the following method vvill secure as exact justice as is attainable in the details : 1. Any delégate may represent a district, if he is chosen by a District Convention, properly called. 2. lf a State has chosen its quota of delegates, at a regular state convenüon, these delegates, or a inajority of them, il' present, shall cast the vote of the State, eilher individually or collectively, as they may agree. 8. If a state convention has mode any other provision-for throwing its vote, such provisión shull stand. 4. In the failure of all these, the members of the party present from any State, may hold a meeting by public notice, and decide how the vote of their state shall be cai-t. 5. If they do not decide, then all the members present shall vote on the nomination, and their vote shall stand as the vote of the state. George W. Johnson, Esq.,of BufTulo, isrequested tomrke arrangements on behalf of the committee, for obtaining a suitable piace for the meeting. Editors of Liberty papers are requested to circuíate this notice, and urge a general attendance at the convention. The members of this committee - the State Central cornmittees - in their respective States are requested to do all they can, by personal correspondence and otherwise to secure a full represetntion, both for the Mass Meeting and nomination . it is probable the Conveation will continue two days. By the National Committeeof the erty party. Alvan Stewart, of New York, Ch'n Josiiua Leavitt, of Massichusetts, Schuyler Hoes, of New Jersey, Titus II.utchinson, of Vermont, Samuel Fessendkn, of Maine, F. Julius Lemoyne, of Pennsylvania, Francis Gillette, of Connecticut. The following members of the commiltee have expi-essed tlieir opinions in favor of pustponing the convention until nex! y car : S. P. Cir.iSE, of Ohio, Daniel Hoit, of New Hanipshire. Boston, July, 1847. QCr The VVhig Gazette at Jackson thinks it an evidence of "undoubtcd grit" that the Liberty party will throw away some thousand votes on its own candidates, who cannot be elected. As to the "grit," we tbink so too. We expect to see it Par surpassed, however, by the "grit" of the Whigs who will Ihrow awny on their own candidates, without a shadow of hope of their eleotion, some 20,000 votes, which if applied to the support of the true Wilmot Proviso, antislavery candidates, would at once elect them to office, and thereby keep out of the office of Governor thct " wine-bibbJ7ig Old. Hunker, Slavcry Propagandist," whose election the Gazette so much dreods. Wil] the whigs do this ? No they liad rather ihrow away their voles on their own Tay'or candidate, and tH'.is elect the old Locofoco " imne-bibber" to office. Well, gentlemen, by so doing you can show your " grit," if nolhing more. CTlie "Democracy" of New Hampshire have been unexpectedly defeated, by the eleclion of Tuck, the Independent candidato for Congress in the first disirict, and Wilson, (Whig) in the third district.

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