Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-07-28
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY .. ISIS.
The I'epper.and-salt Convention.

A rrspcc,atln manner Of (wostly locoloco)
boilers met tao ~ Party yesterday. in
WlIlslon according 10 a>>gnation. and made
match Of IL" i -antleman who was present
and participated in the discussions that took
place. gives us the account Of the affair that we
proceed to give briefly to our readers.
The Convention assembled in conformity
with a cal! to those "who are opposed to The
Extension of Slavery Such call, it will at
once be seen. addresses itself to about every
nan, woman and child in Vermont, excepting
| (of cour.c) those who adhere to Cass, who is
pledged to VETO any bill prohibiting the extern
sion Of Slavery CaSs.men, women and chill.
dren, therefore, were not invited. AT the hour
and place appointed, the Convention, composed
of a fep Wings, morc l.ocofocos, and most Third
party men, and numbering somewhere between
three and siz hundred met, ami naturally
looking at each other with some surprise
It the strange calamity in our National
fairs that ha! brought such usually inharmo-
Nous and antagonis,ic elements under the same
roof, organized by making ASAHEr. PECK Esq.
Corofoco) President. The names of the other
officers we did not learn but doubt not that the
Suboidinaia PARTIES to the transaction, (Whigs
and libeites) were not overlooked in the ar
rangemcnt Of them.
Remarks were made by Messrs Bcardscy o.
Milton. Chit!cnden and Weston of Burlington
$. $ Brown of st. Adams, and others, expires
5ive of the hostility of the speakers to the fur
thcr extension of Slavery, and their consequen
opposition to the nomination of both the Ma
'ona Conventions. Mr.. Brown was MT re
minded Of his g mastery" and elaborate essay
in the 81. Ahjans Republican, last winter, Il
: prorc that The VVHmoi PrOriso is unconSiiiH
'i''"", nov of hi~ ei,rasHio" ~ Me passage o
N" Pre- Territory respiHiiOn by the LOcofoc'
State Convention, last f,ll at Montpelier an
; SO his speech went of rs well as any bol,'s
: rhe Convention being understood to b. decided
" favorable to N,rtiq Van Buren, for President
, probably felt as large charity for po'Hicm Si,
ners as the occasion migh, lcmind!
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Locofoco) reported the Resolutions. Tin
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, led from that adopted by the Wing State Con
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