State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-10-18

The young men oil New York. friendly
TO Horris6Sand Granger, have held State
Convention at New York city. The Cou-
rier aud Enquiries issued Oh the morning
of their assembling, has the following re-
marks
Uhig State Convention Of Young Men,
The Delegates to the Convention, which
is to represent the Young Men of the State
OF New York, who have arrayed themselves
in opposition to dictatiou and corruption in
the choice of Chief Magistrate Of the
Union, assemble in this city, this day, the
anniversary Of the battle OF the Thames.
The place fixed for their sittings, is we uu-
derstand, the saloon in Niblo's garden.
We doubt not, from the note of prepare
ton for these several weeks throughout the
state, that the Convention will be strong in
numbers, rs it certainly will i'll talen; and
patriotism. TO the Young Men of our
state, we are ready to commit the great
cause of REFORM; upon them resi- our
best hopes of victory. They come, fresh
from the people are of the people atima-
ted with an honest, unyielding patriotism
that justly regards the sacred cause of liber-
ty-of the freedom and purity of the cleo
tive franchise as stuked upon the event OF
The approaching struggle. AS it is to their
uutirlng zeal ana spirited eXerticns that we
owe the proud attitude with which our par
ty has ever borne up in spite of all the dis.
couragoments of the past, SO will it be to
their indignant resolution to resist, at all
hazards, the attempt to impose IL successor
upon a free people, by the rescript of the
executive that we must owe our success.
They have every thing in the signs of the
times, to cheer them onward. Thus far,
victory has perched upon the banner of the
Hero of the Thames, wherever it has been
uniurled. The name of the CINcINNATUs
of the West has proved Il tower of strength
to the Constitution, and of equal rights the
plaudits of grateful millions have hailed his
progress wherever he has appeared. The
young men of our State assemble, on the
anniversary Of the victory which he won
twenty years ago, with Il political horizon
as radiant with success, as that which
dawned around our hero, after the battle
of Lake Erie had shed its undving luStre
upon our flag. The tide of war which had
been turned by the chivarous PERRY on
the 18th September, was taken at its flood
by the gallant liARHIsON, and The 9th Oc-
tober cUIlsummated the glory OF the Amer
lean arms aud the fame OF the never defeat
ed nero OF many BATTLES. II the young
wings Of the Empire State meet this day
with the same determined spirit with which
their candidate then marched forward to
the encounter, their victory over the leglons
Of corruption aud prescription will he as
easy and as signal rs that OF the brave iIAR-
RIsoN then was over an army Of foreign
merccnaries and their savage allies We
need not remind them OF what they owe
their country, when the only safeguard OF
its llberles--the FREEDOM OF ELEC-
TONS is openly and avowedly brought
ia conflict with, aud attempted to be crush
ed by the insolence OF power, and the pat
ronage of government We ask but of
them to give to each other, and to their
state and country, the same pledge to main
tain their rights and liberties inviolate,
which their ancestors gave TO bequeath
them unimpaired 10 their descendants. Ii
they redeem that pledge, they will redeem
themselves and their country, from the e.
tcrnal disgrace which the Success Of execu-
tive dictation, of official serylity and cor
rup,ion will otherwise infict upon lis name.
they will vindcate the free choice of the
PEOPLE in the eyes OF the world, and while
they elevate the character, will secure the
prosperity and perpetuate the Institutions
of our common county. The spirit they
breathe, aud the tone in which they speak,
we trust, will he such as will stir the hearts
of their constituents and rouse them to still
greater activity in the cause of REFORM,
and the RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE