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The State Convention

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Day
21
Month
October
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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From one ihou&uid to fiftcen hnndred persons were present at the Liberty on the 9th. Thcv wou!d hold out, f ncuially coimtctl, one by one. Ilid il been a Vhig or Democratie ineeünf, t would doubUes;; liave been nnnoimceil as " Fi?e Thovsand Fice uiiu vi Counciir But we do nol go into thestí extravagant but 'refer to adhoru to t!ie rijficl truü). It was not ony the less encourngmj lo u?, that a considerable numbrr of ladies vvere prepeiU, and not u feu politicn] opponent.-;. We beJieve they .ail f ugree tljal the meeting fully met the public expeciatioris. The Argtis (Dem.) poíícés tho Conven: ion thus:"The Abolifionisfs had a very re?pectnble turn out at their tuass rneeii'icr at hs place on Wednesday Inst. The principo! speaker waü a mulatto - said to be a s=on of UlianceUor Bibb, of Kentucky - and when we say ihat he made a better speech than Cassius M. Clny dld (VotP the same place. a few weeks previojs, e but repeat the general opinión of al! candid men wJio heard both. In respect to native ta.ent, wit nd e'oquence, Lawrence, Pnller, or Encker, can't begin to compare with hitn. He coimnenced nis speech in the Court House, bi:t as the assembly could not uil et in the building, the meeting adjourned 10 Die e({are.7' Öur other engagements precluded us from taking ony notes of the remarksofthe speaker?, and in ihe evening we could not obtam a sent in the House. While looking around on the muhitude of enthusiastic Ilsieners, we thought of the remark of Rev. John P. Clkvkland, made on a similar occasion, in the same house, two years since, thal "ifubolitioni?ra was dying, il teas evident Ihat a good number had tnrned oat (o the funeral !"

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Signal of Liberty
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