Senatorial Liberty Convention: For The Signal Of Liberty: A ...

On moííoT), a !usine?s commiltee waa ppoiníed, consistiría o'f C. Gurney esq., ísaittb Burson esfj,,, and Dr. R. P. Stevens. On tnoiion, the convention proceeded to bnllot íbruvo candientes for Senators, wbích resnltetf rn t!io nominal ion of John P. Marsh' of K.ilnmrtzoo Co., and James L. Bishop of St. Joseph Co. On motion, A. H. Edwardsf H. itfonfá?e and N. M. Thomas wcre oppoinLed a Senatorial Commiltee for the ensuing j'enr.The foüovving resoluiions wcre Oíen pressnted by Dr.R. B. Bement bikI unanimously idopted: Resolved, That i the deatlr of ííotí. ítt P. Stcvpn.s, the cnuse of anti-slavery has loart i val'uab'lo aml efficnnt and córt- Twnity a highly intellectual, moral vaïjnhle citizon. Resolved, ThU we tender to his bereayeá "urnily our tenclercsl eympatliies. the. rcsolutions repoKed by the? Business C,ümtnitee and adopted, wero tho 'ollowitig1: Resolved, That vc repudinto the miserable íypocrisy of the whirr and democratie partii n iheír pretensions to consistent dêmocracy r republicanism, wliile tliey support an opiressive slnve-holding aristocracy at waí vith the rïhts and ínterests of Freemerr. Resolved, That the whig doctrine of cho'oirnr betv.-e'íii two evils, ndmiuing there is áriy hoice ge: ween the two oíd parties, is a docrine which is fülae in principie, and wé ,caiv