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The Democratic Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
October
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wliich was in se-sion from Wedneday of las,t week q linee o'clock Stmdaj rrvrning. liada stormy tiuie.hut t leigtli succefded in niaking the following n"cni nations. Thpy are cfeieiy of th " OW Hunker" wing of the pariy. For Controller- OrsiWc Hm.gerford) JefiVrson Co. For Sccrelary of Slate-Edward San ford,N.Y. For Lieutenanl Governor - Nathai Da ion, Niagnra. _ For Atlorney General - Levi S. Chat fieW, Oisgo. For Treasurer-Georgc W. Gul ver Wavne. For State Engineer-O. VV. Childs Onondngn. f'or Canal Commissioners- John O Mather, Rens-elaer ; Ëlinha H. Smith Chenango; Fredenck Follelt,Gene.-ee. For Inspectors of Slate Prison- John Fisher, Westchester; Georgo t'ad well, Montg'imerv; Nonnan Smith, New York. On the last nigtit of tlie Convent on, the principie of the Wilmnt Proviso was bmugltl up in the fullowing resolu:ions o fff red by Mr. Smilh, of VVayne: Re-ohefyhat we beheve in the dignitv nnd I li e lierhts of free labor: tlmt frec white tabor cannot thrive uon he same soil witli slave labor : and tdat tlicief re i is neither nght nor wise to devote the temperatura climale and (ertile soil office 'erritorv, ('to be lieieal'ter arquiieH,) to lave labor, lo thfi exclusión of th ree litbor of uil the States. Resolved, tdat we adhere to nll the compromises of ihe Constitulion; that we will maintain, with inflexible firmne,njl the reserved right of the States; but we declire 'jnconiromising hostiht'y to l!ie extensión of Stavery to territnry now fice by the act of the Ueneral Government. To flus, Mr. David Dudley Field, of New York, ofTered the fullowing subs'itate: Resolved, Tlmt, in the crisis which has now arrived, t is the dutv of Northern Demoi-rats todeclnre t' eir uncompromising hosiility to every nctoftre Federol Government for the introduct'on of Slavery into free territory hereafter to be acquireJ. In the discussion uj)on this substitute, and on apoint of order raised by a rnotion for the previous qiieUon, n scène of the greatest confusión nnd uproar ensued. The Choir wns su ttined in its decisión that the motion for the previi u question cut olT Mr. Field's reslution ; and the Demncracy of tlie Einpire State thus viitually voted down the Wilmol Proviso.

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Signal of Liberty
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