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Secession

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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We not.ce in tlio Albany Patriot an tuticle of five columns, containing a cal) for a Nalional Convention, and the reasons for issuing it. It is to be held Dt " Mncedon Lock, Waync countv, N. Y., on Tunsday, YVednrsday and Thursday, JuneSth, Oih and lOtli, 1847, for tin; purpose of nominatmg candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of ihe United States, upon tho basis of the following Declara! íof) and also for the [ïurposo of taking rneasures lo disscminate our principios, and curry our nominations into effect." The declara tion sets forth the principios of the new organizaron under 1!) hcads. Aniong them we noties equnlity of political rights to all the resident and permanent subjects of government. : ell monopolies and exclusive privileges to be discarded : tho right of each individual to ocmpy a portion of land : selfownership : no commerchl restrictions : tho aholition of Custom Ilou.es : slavery is illfgrtl, unconslitutional. arjd nnti-rrpublican, and should be so declared by the National Judiciary, on npplicntion of a slave : nll legislation and legal declsions to be based upon right : homestead exemption : distribution of public lands to landle.ss men : no post-oflïee monopoly by government : secret societies to be discountenanced at the ballot box. The address represents the occasion of this new orgar.ization to be the [act that the Liberty party have refused to take anv groiind on many of these qnestionj. The cal! is signed by William Goodel!, J. C. Jacksori, and fifty othors, from seven counties in New York, most or all of them, we presume, Liberty men.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News