State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-04-26
HARRISON IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Agreeably to call, general county
meeting OF Antmasonic Republicans, and
those disposed to act with them, convened
at the public house of VIM. Everhart, in
the borough of Westminster, on Monday,
the 18th of March, 1896. Whereupon
Jesse Mercer was called to the chair, Al
exander Marshall, Esq. and William En-
bree, were appointed Vice Presidents, and
John Huey and Jesse Evans, Secretaries.
On motion, it was resolved,
That committee, consisting of eleven,
be appointed to draft resolutions expressive
of the sense of the meeting. Whereupon
VIM. Darlington, Joseph Taylor, U. b.
Pennypacker, Jesse Evans, John A. For.
CUES, Dr. J. A. Brinton, Benz. Parker, Col.
n. p. Crosby, Alexander Marshall, J. NJ.
Painter, and Abraham Darlington, jr. were
appointed said committee.
On motion the meeting adjourned until
two o'clock, p. NJ. at which time, having
again assembled VIM. Darlington, Esq. on
behalf of the committee, made the follow
ing report which was severally considered
and adopted, viz:
Whereas, the Antimasonic Convention,
composed of Delegates from all parts of
the State, in which the antimasonic party
was fully represented, held at Harrisburg
on the 18th of December last, did, after
mature deliberation, and by Il vote of al
most uneXampled unanlmity, place in nom
ination WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
of Ohio, as n candidate for the Presidency,
and FRANCIS GRANGER OF n. York,
for the Vice Presidency of the United
States:
ind ,CherenS, those nominations have
been made in the customary manner, and
indeed in the only way in which public
sentiment can well be concentrated with Il
view to harmonious and efficient action in
pursuit of great and leading principles of
policy:
find iUheredS also, we are well convinced
that these gentlemen are thoroughly imbu.
ed with the cardinal principles which gov
can our party opposed TO all secret oath
bound combinations of men, for whatever
purpose, and advocates of the equal rights
of all-and that if elected, they VIII carry
out those principles by all legal and
constitutional means in their power
Therefore,
ReSolped, That we most cordially APP
prove of those nominations by the antima-
sonic party of Pennsyvania-that we have
witnessed with high qualification their nom
we will one and all, use our best eXertions
to promote their election.
Resolred, That we deprecate the election
of Martin Van Buren,, the appointed sue
cessor of the Executive, himself the leader,
and fully identified with the party whose
only aim is power and the spoils of victory
Whose principles and policy have ever
been at war with the best interests Of Penn
sylvania-and whose course, if not speedi-
ly arrested, will reduce us to a degrading
vassalage, unworthy of the condition of
free citizens ola sovereign and indepen-
dent state.
Resclred, That believing Martin Van
Buren, to he an uncompromisng foe TO all
the principles of our party and holding
him, his party and his tactics in utter aver
sion and adherence, we cannot resist the
conclusion, that any antlmason who could
for one moment tolerate the idea of giving
him his support, would prove recreant to
the principles he has protested a traitor
to the cause of equal rights and privileges
and deserving the lasting contempt Of eve
ry honest man.
Resolred, That we will oppose the cleo
ton of Richard NJ. Johnson, because we
believe him unfit for the station, in point
oGmlents and requirements and especially
because we cannot do violence to our feel
inss and outrage the moral sense of COM
muniiy, by electing such man to the sec
ond Office in the gift of the people.
Resolred, That the antimasons of Ches-
ter county were amongst the earliest and
most steadfast opponents of the masonic
institution in Pennsylvania, and that in tax
ing review of a 'seven years struggle"
with the monster" at the ballot boxes, we
can felicitate ourselves that within the
bounds of orr county, we have good evil
dencc to believe that not a single mason
has been made for three years past, and
that every lodge has thrown up lis charter
or Smashed DOWN.
The Rev. DIR Ely has resigned the edito-
rial chnr of the Philadelphia to the Rev.
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