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Whig Nominations

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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The great Baltimore Convention nomina ted Henry Clay for th Presidency, by acclamation, and Theodore Frelinghiiysen, of New Jersey, for Vico President, by a majority cf 36. votes. The first ballot stood for Davis, 83, Frelinghuysen 101, Fillmore 53, Sergeant 38. The southern delegation were nearly unanimous for Frelinghuysen. They dare not trust a New Englonder, especinlly a són of Masachneetts! The nominntion of Vice President in sotne respects is a udicious one for the party. The location of Mr. Frelinghuysen is ecarcely removed, from the borders of the slave States; he of late, lias mingled bilt little in politics and therefore has few political enemies; and he is favorably known to the religious community as a christinn nnd an orator at religious anniversari2s. Thus while c portion of commumty can be carried by coon song-s and exhibitions, in behalf of Mr. Clay, the sober, intelligent, and religious, who cnnnot be gianed by such devices, will be baited to support the whoh ticlcet by the pieiy and irreproachable character of Mr. Frelinghuysen. Whoever contri ved the plot it is a grood one, and if the leading religious papers, like the N. Y. Observer nnd N. Y. Evangelist, can be made to counteaance i', Boniething may be made out it.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News