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Nominating Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Liberty papers generally, so far s thcy have spoken, are n favor of havngthe National Nominating Convenon held in tre spring of 1848. The tillowing papers have cxpicssed iheir pintona in favor of that time : the Albany Patriot, Liberty Press, Hcrkiter Frceman, Bangor Gazcitc, Green Woiintain Frceman, Cleveland Amerian, Mercer Luminar y, Bignal of Librlij, Cincinuali Herald, and National Ira. The Emancipalor, Liberty Slanlard, Essex Transcript, and Washington aalriot, aro in favor of holding the conention the ensuing fall. A correspondent of the formor paper, writing from New Ilampsliiie, goes for next spring. - l'hcre can he no doubt, we think, that lie judgment of a largo mnjority of liiberty men is decided in favor of next pring, as the proper time for the convention. The Washington Patriot admits tb. is to be the fact, and yields to the mnjorily. - National Era. 05= The New York Sun saya : - "On Sunday, the llth, a solemn Te Deum was celebrnted at the Catliolic church at Natchitoches, in commemorution of our li-iumphs in Mexico. The church was crowded wilh people of all religious denominations. Tlie Rcv. Mr. Justiniani delivered an appropriate addrese." When the bells of Protestant churchrs, which resound from year to year with sermons on brotherly lovo, peace on eirth and good will toman, ring out their merry bells in triumph over the wholesale slangliter of our fellow-creatu rcs,and the priests of Catholic churches ofler op Te Teums for the signal successes achieved by gunpowdor in blowing their brother Catholics to atoms, party men mny stirely play as many mad pranks as they please. The preachers and priests of these mart al churches should lay askie the shicld of faith and heimet ofsalvation, and set out ns recruiting captains. They could do doublé duty.say prayers and charge bayonet, admintster ghostly camfort, or make ghosts of u;en, just as the case might demand. Just God and Iloly ! 1.3 tliy Sanctuary itself to be polluted by the feil spirit of war? - Era. Gov. Johnson, of S. Carolina, has ssued his proclaniation, appointed Thursday 6lh May, a day of general thanksgiving for the triumphs of our arme in the war with Mexico - Ex. Poeper. For sometimo we have been expecling an cxhibition of American piety like ihis; and ceriainly no State could be found tliat could more appropriately ead off in such an exhibition of devo'.ion and gratitude for the morderá and pillage pérpetráted on the Mexicans. A peopla ?ho mako nto Slaves tliree-fifths of thcir own nativc bom population may spproprjateiy thanli the God vvliom thcij worship for the successful perpetration of any crime by whicí) they may be benefitled. It is a great pity Gov. Johnson did not import fromEngland the iprm of thar.ksgiving ï-ecommended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and read in all the Englis! churches on the occasion of the slaughtet of tbc Sikhs. U wouldhaveboiüi quitt approprUte, with a iittle alieration ó the )liraseology, and a clause or two ad ded, ihanking God lor the great ati' promising market ot hluves which wouli bc opened to the South by lliese "tri uinpiis of ür nnns " Is it any wonder thnt infidels abound when Buch abomnalilii 3 ná sharéelefs farces are enai:led in tlie narno of the Cliristian religión, beloru the whole worlJ, and in tliis aitieleentli cenluryï (Cf" Our VVhig correspondent nt Plymoutli lias dono such jusliee to tlio so[)liistryofthe Detroit Advertiser re-peeting ilie v&r, tliat ilieio is no occasi in for ouraddinga word, Wo have no doubt lie speaks the feclings of gre:t numbors f intelligent and conscientous Whigs. - - ?lie Advertiser ;s surroundcd by a set of ity politicians whose way of thinking iffera much from that of the substnntiul Eirming community of the country. In üllowing tlic former entirey, we beeve tbat paper, on tliis subject, is losing he confidence of Whigs of principie anong the worinng classes. It is d (Reu 11 br thein to see why so ullaioous a war hould ncccssarily be pro.seculed fbr a eries of years, at a tremendous nntional oss. But that is a, matter between the Advertiser nnd its readers. Parhipe he Editor may yet be able to mzkc thein see it. 03a The Oakland Gazetie is pleadng tlio cause of Gen. Tavlor, and arques tliat as tho AVliigs voted for one Slaveliolder for President in 1844, they may as well vote for anolhcr in 1848. - riie Editor lells his readers, - "Tlie Whig tliat lias pledged himself o vote for no Slaveliolder lor the next Vesiiiency, o any event, must have jeen will ing blindly, to put himself in a situation where he might either be obliged to break his pledgo or knowngly oppose the bu.ït imeresls of his country." As the Gazette claims to have a tnowledge of tlie views of Gen. Taylor, we should like to have it say whether he sor is not opposod to the principie ol he Wilmot Proviso? If he be, would you still support him 1 Or would you be willing to give him yotir vote and inluenee in the dark, and "no questions asked?:' Our only object in mnking the nquiries is to ascertnin how deephj proslavery you are. (L The Watchtower says tliat llie 3dilor of the Adrián Expositor lias announced as liis ':first choice," íbr Pyesident, H. Cluy : for Vice President, Gen. faylor. Tsvo slaveholders, and two soutfiern men on llie sume ticket ! We vonder vvhen the Editor vvill read tlie jocos another homily about 'DoiighfaccsV The Whigs, as a party, we have someimes thouglit, were more foolislúij inconsistent (han their opponents : for having no paramount principie but ovailabilily, hey turn in n momeBt the most surprising sumrnersels, without hurting their consciences or principies an atom. ftj5 A correspondent of tlio Free Pres writes f rom Virginia, - "Wheeüng" is the town of all other., where I woulJ not ] i k o to live. Surrounded by bare hills, ils streets steep and dwogreable, - negroos of every shade, from tho rich whitish yollowof lie qimdroon down to the blue black of he half starved descendant ol Afric's sable sons, whose complexion, once dark is the raven's wing, is changed to a bliiish tint by being ill-fed. Ragged, "ilthy, thioving and wortliless, I would not live where they hourly meet the eye, and where co.il smoke ncarly cholws one, for half of "Oíd Virginia." In Ba!timoreand oiher places in Marvland and on the roule, one sees negroes bad and nggrd enougli in all concienco, hut n Virginia, on the bordersofa free state, tho slaves ore incoinparably wrefched. Fhis is strange but it is neverllieless truc, and why it is I will teil you. Thosc bat reinain are absolutely too indolont to run away. Did tlioy give leg bail, they must work for a living, and lliat would e worse than doatli by starvation to the oor creatuies. Now they gettlieir living (?) f rom their maslers, uided by what they can piek up." VVe perceive by a communication from Wm. Goode]!, n the Albany Patriot, that Mr. Birncy has signed the cali for a National Convent ion to be held at Macedón Lock, N. Y., for the formaiion of a ncw antislavcry party. Mr. Gooctel] says: "Mr. Birney expresses liimsclf.-trongly in favor of the " inalienable homestead," and reinarles that "recent eyents in Irelahd", Scotland and elsewhere" Ilústrate '.lie propriety of the nieasure." QJ= VVe have receiveü t!ie tir.st number of die Gcnoseo Herald, published at Fenlonvillo, by P. Joslin. It does not appear to be of any political j)ar(y. The InJependcnt Derriocrat, (tho org:m of the üalc party) and the Grnnite l'Veenian havo boen united in one, and the new paper goes undor the tille of "Independent Demoorat and Freeinnn. " Wetmore and Hooil, l'ublishers; (1. G Fogg and J. E. Hood, Editor. This arrangement isa good onc, as botli papera were pubüshed at the same place (Concoi-d the Capital,) and were devotcd to the same object. The union gives a list. of iorty-five hundred subscriben, larger tlmn any oiher pape in theStato, vvith twostrong and vigoious writers at the editorial helm. tíuccesbtu the union.

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Signal of Liberty
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