The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-02-19
Free Soil State Conyention.

AT meeting Of the Free Soil members the Legislature
and several OTHER gentlemen, held Friday evening the tb
inst, it was unanimously voted that the State CaptroI
Committee be requested to cali State Mass Contention N
be holden in Boston during the present month"; In commit
ance with this vote and In accordance with their own We've
the State Central Committee do hereby call 4 STATE
MASS CoNVENfi0N; TO be holden in FANEuII Han,
on WEDNESDAY, the TWENTY-sEVENTH nav ~
FEBRUARY, at II o'clock A. NJ
The cause ofhuman liberty is in eopardv The d,ro
imminent, pressing The shareholders are nordinafe in
their demands; bold and reckless in sustaining them b
politicians OF the Free States tmid sbseyient viT
ing Statesmen of age of large experience and ackno,5
ed talents are vieng with each other their efforts To sas
III ie cause OF hoerty by compromising with slavery
Inc wing ana Democratic parties are alterng Welding 10
the arrogant demands of the slave perpetuass and
sions who are plotting TREASON at the capitn-tbreat
eng to dissolve tie Union and subver the Government
Slayehoding Executive surrounded by Cabinet mo
ority of which from the Slave States is now enertim
the vast power and patronage of his office to CHECK n
rest the action of Congress and defeat the will of The neo
Influenced by Executive interference and slavehodnd
ton the House of Representatives nus ALREADY tstad
The principles of the Ordinance of 1857 and the tths b
Declaration of Independence have been voted down trong
the recreancy OF Northern politicians Who have BETRAYED
the people. "''u
In this alarming crisis nothing can arrest the triumnb G
the slave propagandists and the cause OF liberty and
humanity but the instant prompt and decisive action Of he
PEOPLE of the Free States who rising in the ny
ness OF freemen spung Executive interference and slave
hodg dlcation repdatng the false of treacher
Gus leaders and the supposed interests of party
shall proclaim their fidelity the Unon-their rdexibie
denomination to sustain it at any and every hazar-her
NeG uhalterabe purpose under the Constitution and within
e Union 10 arrest the extension of slavery the terrific
RES now freeto abolish the slave and slavery in the
Dlsct oil Columbiato relieve the Federal Government
from all connection with and responsibility for sayeryan
TO place the government openly, actively and on
e SIDE OF freedom The people and the people alone can
avert the tnd action of their representatives and
the opponents of slave extension.
In this CRISIS the true friends of LIBERTY ana uNIoN
N Massachusetts called upon assemble in FANEuI
HALL, Where Their fathers meet in the dark
and troubled days Of the Rev oluonarv contest The Cn
llee would urgently press upon their fellow citizens the
Importance of taking immediate measures to secure Gln
attendance, of firm, true and wise men who viii devnta
one day i'll honest effort to rescue liberty now noI
the Union now madly assailed
HENRY WILSON John G. WHITFIELD
| WILLIAM JACKSON ESTES HOWE ''
~ DNS ", a Ai LYON JOHN MILTON EARLE,
nESoN ~ rdlMGAME. ALLEN BANGS
H II w; blsHOP, e. i. ENSIGN,
w. b. SPOONER, CALLER sVVi NJ
'oh> d. ALLEY, JOHN H. SHAW.