Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-06-22

being on the strongest side, pftended
extracts ofkefters" are pubiped, 81
sing Information of the Wonderful
strength of the slave party h distant
Counties. Some of these may possibly
be the work of The Central Jutta, or Of
some County Janfo; but AN Inclined
10 the belief that most Of them ere una
nutacturedin Edwardsville. ilellyou
why Some time ago was in company
with several leading convenlionisss in
that town, when | heard certain con-
Senuon lawyer, who is known 10 be
great scrlbbler, speaking of SONS person
whose name ! did not distinctly hear,
use these words :---.' he goes for the con-
renfton." Such was the oddly of the ex-
preston that it was still fresh in my me-
mory when he Illinois Republican, OF
May IL, made its appearance, containing
an extract Of letter from Crawford
county, dated 6 Palestine, .dhril 3oth,"
IN which the writer is made 10 say
a. Many of the followers of p now
go for The conreafion" 1t is hardly cree
dible that such an expression should
have been used, at the same time, by one
person in Edwardsyille and another in
Palestine.
Candid and weli-informed gentlemen
Of The convention party have long since
abandoned all hopes of success. One
OF them, who is a Judge of the Supreme
Court Of this state, has made the follow
fe nj |,
In the second and third judicial cir
cults, he thinks the parties will be about,
equally divided. In the first circuit,
there will be a large majority against
convention. In the fourth, there will be
majority in favor OF The convention,
but by no means as large as the majority
against it in the FIRST circuit.
This calculation is probably much too
favorable to the convention party bufI
let it be remembered that it is a calcula-
ton made by gentleman ofthat party.
Some of The conventionists will, how
ever still continue TO boast of their sue
cesses, and talk as if they were confident
Of victory Ii is a part of their system
of management They move about in
squads Of four or FIVE, and encounter
some person whose lungs are insufficient
to carry on the suordy COMBAT single
handed, and who, in order TO get rid Of
them, will sometimes drop some equivo-
cal expression, which is Instantly seized
as positive proof OF his conversion 10
the benevolent cause Of hereditary, IN
sSerifed, unlimited slavery. The news
of such conversion is then sounded by
the township juntoes, The county jnn'oes,
and the Great Central yunto at Wanda |
liza /; and the story is repeated ill those
who invented it almost beiieve il them
SELVES. Thus many respectable citizens
have been reported as isging gone over
to the slave party, whose principles have
undergone no change, and who are de- |
cidedly opposed to the convention,
A large majority of the people ofthis
state, are, and always have been, oppos
ed 10 slavery. They have seen That,
were convention TO be now called, i'll
would be in the power of less than one
fourth Of the voters to make constitu-
ton which would De perpe,ually binding
upon the state. The rejection by the |
leaders of the convention party, OF the |
proposition to postpone the calling OF a |
convention till the census Of 1925 shall
be taken, and new apportlonment OF
representation made according to that
census, is seen by the people in its trut
light. They perceive that an attempt
is making by the conventionlsts to enable
the minority to rule, and 10 fasten the
curse of slavery upon the state in spite
OF the majority.
/. A REPUBLICAN.
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