Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-09-05
From this Washington UniaH
The Present State of the Canvass.


| The Buffalo Convention has, by a very
| close vote between the abolitionist Hale
and Van Buren,, taken up Van Buren, for
its candidate. and put him forward with
the old federal abolitionist, Charles F.
Adams, as the representative OF the avow.
ed Abolition Platform laid down in the
following resolutions, one of which de-
mands the abolition by Congress of sla-
very in the District of Columbia and
the others, the exclusion by Congress Of
slavery from that territory which lies ad.
jacent, on the west, to the State of Ar.
kansas, and which rs of course admitted
to be included in the Missouri Compro.
mise of 1920:
Resolved, That it is the duty Of the
federal government TO relieve itself from
all responsibility for the existence or con-
tnuance of slavery, wherever that govern.
ment possesses constitutional authority TO
legiSlate on that subject. and IS thus res.
ponSibIe for its existence.
Resolved. That the true, and ID The
judgment of this convention, the only safe
means Of preventing the extension of sla.
very into territory now free, as to prohibit
its existence in all such territory By an
art Of Congress.
Resolved, That we accept the issue
which the slave power has forced upon us,
and 10 their demand for more slave States
and slave territories, our calm but final
answer is, no more slave States, and no
more Stare territory.
This is practical abolition, and its effect
is obvious. 1t places MIR. Van Buren, in
the hands Of the abolitionists and of those
dboliioniSing wings who form so large
portion of the wing party in Massachu-
sets and Ohio, and who are so numerous
also in the wing ranks in New York
northern democracy. on the other hand.
the "barnburners" in New York-wilI
shrink from such company. They are no.
ready-free. sellers though they may be-
10 rally under the lead of Joshua r. Gid.
dings. They are not willing yetto strike
hands with tie craftsmanship of the "col.
ored abolitionist Douglass and the fugi.
tive-slave" Bibb-whose eloquence Vas
demanded so loudly, and listened 10 so
enthusiastically by the convention The
rank. and file of the barnburners Of New
York. zealously as they may have "hailed
from Utica" will yet pause before they go
to the polls to vote for the candidate of
body whose vote was 129 for John p.
Hale, and l56 for Martin Van Buren,
the SO votes of the Utica delegates to-
Baltimore( who were instructed to be pres
ent at Bufalo> being more than the differ
ence between them! The Buffalo NOM
inatlon, and the Buffalo platform. may
very probably cost Mr.. Van Buren, one.
half or even two thirds, of the democratic
vote which he might otherwise have re-
ceived in New York. AT all events, they
must utterly destroy the impression which
he might possibly otherwise have made
on the vote for Cass and Butler in o.her
States. But with the achig free. soil boil.
ters-the conscience" wings, for in.
stance, in Massachusetts, and the "Re.
serve" wings in Ohio, and probably, foo,
not few of the Seward and Greeley
wings in New York--the case is Just the
reverse. For these malcontent patriots:
Mr.. Van Buren, has come from the Buffa.
10 meeting all Srhite-w0shed from his an
cient sin of subserviency to the South
To their view he is now in capital CONF
pany, and in capital position. They
will quit Taylor in masses and cleave to
him thus assuring Ohio to Cass, and
making it far from impossible that, in the
melee Of parties, Cass may get the pla.
rality of the popular vote both in New.
York and in Massachusetts Either Of
these results is ct this moment less i'm.
probable than the present result 10 North
Carolipa was thought to be few weeks