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Oakland County Convention: For The Signal Of Liberty

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13
Month
October
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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At a Convention of the Liberty parly of the County of Oakland. held at the Court Honee in Ponliac, on the 25' li tlay of ÍSepí. 184i', ilie meeting was oifyíriieed by chooiitg Sinith President, and L. Bronson Vice President, T. Deuel, and S. Voorlicis Secrelaries. and addressing the throne of pruce ii) behnlf of the victims of Slavery nnd the philanthropic exertions of their friends . Eüjah S. Fifh, Win. G. Stone, Joseph Morrison and Dr. R. Gilifilen wcre chosen a bus ineíS committee. They rend and presf nted n letter óf sympathy and encourngement addressed to C. M. Clay, which wa? adopted by the Convention; - also the following resolutions, which were adopted: - 1. Resolved, Thnt Slavory, bb t viólalos n pnramount liw of nu,ture- that Aw being "coevftl vvilh the crenMon óf men, and dictated by God himslf," is thcréfore sin' against Goü. 2. Thnt the lavs of .nture guarantee personal freedom to evory sanO beinfr, and ns no linman law can abridgeor dtstroy it, the Inw of Slavery is a nullity - a misnomer - an embodiment of brute force, of which legitímate hnv can takè no cognizance except for its treason agiinst the inalienable riphis of riian; :herefore no one is bound to obey it: henee it is no crime for the slave to 6e ver bis bonde and assórt his freedom; 3. Thnt "right and obliation re reciprocal; ' therefore when a brolhers nglil is invaded, we are under obligation to nid liini i( necossnry in its dcfencc- if wrested from liim, tor its restoration:- henee Torrey and others vvho hnve been inenreeradfor reniieriny uch are puilt} of no crime. 4. Tlmt Slaverj is nntagonstic to freedom, apgressive in its charucter, and aims at.the .ililmatc destruclion of personal liberty in the ma8sc.: Ilence the euperlaüvc contempt for luborious employmente which deoórtiinates our working men and womeú,' "ftñlé ñegroes of lbo north : henee the mul:ipled encroachments of the slave power upon vested and undisputed righis. &. Thai the deadly hoütili'ty chorished I J the Slave Power to thp ireedora of di;cussioh, has been often and eignally déihbstrated. It expelled James G'. líímey ffoni' Lexmgtoh, and destroyed bis press at Cincinnati- de. the prees of El.JAh P. Lowjoy, adb'itchercd liitn at Alto - and wiilnn llie last few vek., in the Siute of Ken'ucky, rouéd i 6 Ircnson.'iblo orm against one of lier litinLfaiyliftl hons, Cussius M.Ctay, and forcibly removed pross from tho State. 6. Thnt the frcedorh f the pres must be mamlniupd, or the libertios f tlus peuple will soon have ft'ul forever - "Imt i order to miin tui it, the Slave Power must be d?stroyed: that Slavcry whicli gave nnd oxatence to that power musí be Dünihilntcd: nnd thnt is armihilation cunoot be peaceablv effect ed hut by politica! ciion. 7. Tha we lia.il wiih plei?ure tlie recent maniffStafions f a spirit favorable to llie establishment of a Y.-urifrrhen's Lbertv Associition lor ïhe State.for the prenidtion of poütical action agninst Sálavery, and iií support of frrediscu6sion. 8. Thnt we walcome all to oür ranks who moke it their first great object to abolieh slavery in these Statep,but we can frm no allinncc with parties whose organizaiions embrace Slave hoWers, or which ecouin1! to :he Slnve Power in votingr away the people's rnoney to pay the Seminóles for cathmg fur-iiive slnvesiony officers and men of mr hatiorinl ships or like services- to pny the federal courts for ! idjudi'cnting heroic Bclfemancipated frecmen wek into Slavery - to sqiinnder milüona on inlional npgro-i'i'unts nnd anmxntiin, lor the pcrpcUitty nf a dominant puwer vvliicli even tjinv bids b'old düiiance to all legitimóte autliority, and shakes the oppressor's rod over tho crin'ging North - parties which rnalign our best m'cn. nnd whose adherents h'ong lliem in effigy, for thèir dëvotion to thé reat principies of consiitutional liberty. 9. That we trust Jantes G. Birney will yet oceupy a more exalted position, than did his enigy at Biickspnrt- "dressed,'" not "for u chain gang" hut for Uie chair of state, not hunr by a whip, but sustained hy stronj hands and warm hearts: hot to niake sport for oúr republicrui Philistines, but in the BÍrerígth of Sampsiin'b God, tó pap tJn; pillars, and t7.e to its foundation, ihcir ttatriarchali.emple of negro slavery. 10. That this Conven! ion cordially adopt b resolution pnssed by the greñt Western and Soütlicrn Liberty Convention at Cincinnali in June last, to wit: "That we love tlie Ünion und desire its perpetuity, nnd révére lhe constilution, and are determined to maintain it: Bul tlie union we love most be a unión to eMabíish justice:' and the consutútioñ' wé siïppo'rt must be that whtch óur Èaihèrs becjuealhcd to us, nnd not that which slavery a.)d serviüty have Bubstit!pd for it." The Rev. E. H. Fuirchild, of a comtnitlee appointed at a previuus rneetinn-, n ad an able addréfs which was iado'pted by 'hé Conveniion, nnd a reeolutióñ was passed thut it be published in the Sigili1 of Liberty. The folio winjj oert-ons were riominaled as candidates fór the Lgislature, viz: Henry Waldron, SkbriSö Voorhkbs, John Thaykr, Joseph A. FhcK, WiLtiArïG. Stö.k, and JdH.N TÍTOÍIAS. Joseph A. Peck, Dr. Gillfilen, N. W. Carrier, and E. tï. Fairchild, were cho.en as del egates lo altend the Yung Men's State Liberty Convent ion at Jacksoi;, October first.

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