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Proceedings Of The Free Soil Meeting In Baltimore

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Day
18
Month
August
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
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Baï.timore, Tuesday, July 25. Horace Greeley ; Dear Sir - I basten tn give you some account of the Great Free Soi! Demonstraron at Union Hall. I do not use that adjective " greal" in ihe usual sense in wliicli it is commonly uscd in deseribing political meetings. Ahhough by no means wanting in nunibers - for several such halls could havo been filiod - the meeting last night preBented the elementa of true greatness. Those who took partin it, or cheered on its proceedings, were of that class well called by the poel thé " noblest work ofGod." Tiiey are men who havo in discourageuient and disgust (led IVorn tliR oJd partios, and eought a party of principie in ilie mnyement whicb proclainas a Free Üoil as alone allovvalile to a Freo Peoplo ! Thi'ii. arain, tli3 demonstration was i in aiiother sense. It was made, nor. in the Free Norili, wliere iliere is nu cause of (' af 'ai takirg sucli i position but in, a STave State, wbere Freemen have too long been freemen only in name - wliere tkey have suffared the deepeet and holiest emotions of their breaststo remain unutlered, for fear of the terriblt; visiiations of despotic wcahh ! It is aiTiid t!ic?e adverse influences and others which 1 need not stop to depict to tliose who have watched the wbéful workings of our " peculiar institution," that this meeting has been held - and that successfully. Well dixl one of the el.Mjuenl speakers declare that it was the most important meeting that had been yet held - that the great Buffalo Convntion itself with all the glorious resulta anticipp.led from its deliberations, iiull be deemed important to the present crisis - tliat the factthat tiie corruptions of the old paities, and the tl) rea tened [ressions of Desp.otisin upon Freedom, had driven so many inhabitants of a Slave City to rise up and proclaim their deterrnined opposition to the Farther extensión of "one of their own institutions, in the very face of the foe, would teil eiectrically upon the Free Soil movenient, and gives it au impulse at one: gloriows hihI irresistible! J3ut to the proceedngs of this pioneer meeting: Resolved, Thaf, wliile we hesitate to trammel our telegat'ea with any thing üke " instructions,'" havint; confidence, a their integrity as representativos of onr wislies, we deern it proper for tlieir goreral giiidance, as well as a clearer apprehension on the part of the comm'initv, to declare tlit! follouingto be the principie which it would e our pleasura to see carried out in tl;e reswlts of tlie Conveution : 1. Xo interfurence by Congress wilh S!avery williin the existing States of the Confederacy. 2. No Slavery to be permitieJ in any Ternr.-, .'.,..t nsáy !■.. . rr-ft-.-r nexe"d lo the Union by the National Government. 3. No Slave Territories to be organized.