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Day
18
Month
August
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
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- The Demntcïacy of'Cook Cou:ity held ti large, and enthiisiastic. meeting at Cliicago on the 5tfi inst. to ratit'y the n.iinination ol Martin Van Huren. Mr. DunicI Brainard, delégate to the Baltimore Convcniion ffotn ihe 4tli Cogreesional o( that State, made a rape}, and gavt Ir.s reasens, at letigth, why he arel tliose whom lie representad in that Convention wei-e not Ijciund even by the long venerstéd rulo üi' ulliprence to party action, to support the notnination of Cass and Jiutler. Tho resohilions are to the same purport. One of them reoommenda a State Masa Convention at Otta wa, on tlie 30t.li of August next, to uoffiinate p Fcae TtM-ritiiry Elfctoral Ticket. Another authorizeg a delegation of fifly to the Buft'alo CiinveaUon. We tako tho (bllpwing touchüt incident froni tho report of' the Chicago Tribuna : " 'l'liiirrias Iloyou, bei'ng callea for, t'oforfi aJáreísing the meeiing, intnxlueed David Kennison, tho only survivor of the Bostoíi toa parly of 177G - no'.v aged 111 years. " The viMierable man gnt Op amid (he spontanéous cheers of tho crowd an spuke for ton or fifteèn minutes. As he told of the days thai tried tnén's soul;, hia eyo grew liright. with the fire ofyouth, and lus trenihling hand with a fírmer grasp Hftod np his cane, as ïf liö werc ngain brandishing his sword in the front of bat tla. This was truly a pleasing feature in thr proceedin2s of the dsiy. " The old man closed with the words thy to be engraven on the hcart of every f reeman - " Mafce yonr country f ree and abolish Slavery !"

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Michigan Liberty Press
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