Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-08-24
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
BUFFALO CONVENTION.
Reported for The Buffalo Commercial .4duertiscrl
FIRST DAY
WEDNESDAY, August 9th, lS4S,
WEDNESDAY, August 9th, 1913, !


few preliminary remarks and speeches, and en-
couraqements and exhortations to unity, and ex-
pressions of determination ''to put the thing
through. ""no giving up "no compromising,
Gree soil and nothing else" The various speech
es we're received with loud cheers, and excited
great cheering among the vast assemblage,
Mr. Peck, of Connecticut, offered the follow
ing sentiment for the adoption of the Convention:
"Let men of the deepest principle manifest the
most profound cOndcSceasjOn, and exercise the
deepest humility to-day, and posterlty will honor
them for the deed"
This sentiment was received with acclama-
tons.
8 o'clock.
Bv this time the concourse had become i'm
mense Every available seat and foot hold on
the ground was occupied The Ohio delegation
came into the tent with banners flying, and were
received with great cheering. The delegation
was welcomed by Col. Miller, from New Hamp-
shire, in neat and spirt-stirring speech, which
was received with great applause.
Mr. EARLE, of Worcester, Mass, followed in
few remarks which consisted in a repetition of
the charge against General Taylor, that he Gen
TAYLOR is opposed to the Wmot Proviso. Mr.
Earle read from Mr.. Bolts address to the people
of Virginia to prove this charge.
Judge NYE of Madison county, was here called for,
and came forth amid great cheering He said that he
wished to make a few remarks in relation to this
"Banburning" movement. He was one that had voted
for Polk in Al, and he ready to confess that he
had been ogregously taken in but he trusted that re-
pentance would wipe out their transgresson. The
northern Democrats made great mistake in 44, when
they admitted the two thirds rule They ought to
have met that issue at once Cries of yes, yes. Mr..
Van Buren, received the majority Of the votes OF that
Convention, and ought to have been the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. But he was sacrificed
to the Moloch of Slavery. In 48 the Jeffersonian
Democracy of the State of New York assembled at
Utica to send 36 Delegates to the Baltimore Conyen-
ton. He was one Of the "36." They went down
there, but the doors of the Convention were closed
against them. There was another band of delegates
there from New York, who claimed to be Democrats,
but they had no more title to the designation than the
Devil has to that of Christian. Laughter. These
men we're ready to bow down and accept the pledge
required by the South before presented to them
[Applause Mr.. Yancey of Alabama, said the Dem
ocrats of New York had raised that Union killing
question, the "Wilmot Provlso," and they had better
be kept out of the Convention, and they were ep out
The omnipotent South could carry the Presidential
candidate trumphantly into the chair without the aid
of the "htie Stale Of NeC York" York was thrust
was heard but once when Daniel S. Dickinson, with
face elongated to its utmost tension got up and said
that no such ndignty should be offered to New
York again; it would excite even the Indignation OF
Hunkersm. Laughter The "36" came home and
made a regular democratic nomination, and the Dem
ocracv of New York and the friends oflberty through
out the vast extent of our country were ralymg to
their support Cries ofyes, yes. You shall be sup
ported They had nominated the victim OF the slave
| No,,R |
But he would now speak of another Convention.
The so-called Wing Convention held at Philadelphia.
There was another noble son of liberty sacrificed upon
the altar of slavery. Henry Clay-at the sound of
this name the most enthusiastic cheers burst from the
assembly,-the old, and tried and beloved leader of
the wings why was he sacrificed? "a voice, "slave-
ry was the cause" Yes both the great popular lead
ers Of the two parties had been sacrificed to slavery
But now the people have taken up the question them
selves, and they will never rest allow the country
to rest till it shall be definitely settled.
The Wings had nominated Gen. Taylor, who was
"a Wing but not an ultra Wing" My friends what
would you say of man who would proclaim himself
Christian bu'not an Ultra Christian anl utterly re-
fuse to be an exponent Of Christian prlncipes?-
| (Laughter) Do you think he would be admitted into
any respectable church such aconfession Of faith
! mo, no) No, nor will Gen Taylor get into the wing
party He may get into small portion Of it, into that
portion constituted of men who have sons for whom
they wish to get snug places-whom they wish to
have appointed midshipmen, or to some OF the thou
sand lucrative offices which 90 to make up the eXecu-
tive patronage. Wings tell you that you should &C
for Taylor, and Hunkers say you must 60 for Cass
There are five of those latter men in the town where
| live and where we poll 500 votes. laughter) we
must beg to differ from them. (lIaugher
This Convention must be self-sacrlfcng Conven
ton. A crisis has arrived when old prejudces have
cot to be laid asde-sacriticed upon the altar OF on
common countrys good. lie had come here to lay
down all his former predictions upon this altar-lt
strike hands with those against whom he had prevl
ousy battled. We minge with representatives iron
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Mich
gan, thank God. Here they stand, representative
from the far fields of the Westan empire in itself
from which slavery had been blolted out by rosolu
ton drawn by the great man of our independence
4Slayery had been excluded, and now the West hat
become the rich grainery Of the world. He had COM
on with representatives from New Jersey-tha
battle field of the Revolution And Pennsylvania to
that glorious old Keystone of the Union is here-frn
and true as steel--who cherishes In her bosom tn
patriot Wilmot God raised up David of old to sla!
the giant of Gath. So hath David Wimot with thu
sling offeedom and the smooth stoneofruth struck tn
giant slavery between the eyeshe reels-let us pus
him over Massachusetts is here-and it is fitting SIN
should be. A son of John Quincy Adams is her
among her delegates. There Samuel Adams
first among the statesmen of the Revolution, and h
reioced that Charles Francis Adams was III the iron
ranks of this great moral revolution.
He hailed this a glorious era. He liked this ag
itation. 1t was an augury of better things to come
lie liked this mingng OF heretofore dscordant eo
ments---drawn together blythe great sympathetic cor
of freedom. Vermont New Hampshire, Missouri AM
Delaware, are here, And he was told that Marylan
was here, and it was a fact of deeply monentous i'm
portance when in the South they begin to talk of evil
of savery-Vrgnio, ''the mother of Presidents" wa
here-The feeling is extending, expanding, not on
at the North, but at the South
If we are wrong on the Tariff it can be righted il
twelve hours. If we wrong on Banks, it can b.
righted by legislation. But if we are wrong on th
subject of Slavery it can never be righted. 1t vii
reach down to poserity, infcting curses and miser
upon generations yet to come. Let, then, no prefer
ences for men distract our councils. Let all meet up
on common platform, to accomplish great, nobl
purpose.
Mr.. HUSBANDS, of Rochester, took the stand an
informed the audience that he was one who had ha
hapd fakan off noiticallv in I'd for maintaining tn