Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-17

ReSolsed-Ihat in our candidates for Governor and
Lieut. Governor, we have selected our standard
'arers who do honor our cause, and shall receive
o lr hearty support.
R,Solted-That it is expedient that National Con-
Venon oil the delegates of the Free Soil party to the
nomination OF candidates for the Offices of President and
Vice President of the United States be held at s,me
time and place to be designated hereafter previous TO
the election of said officers.
Rsolved-That this Convention proceed to choose
nine delegates at large, said National Convention,
ana mat 1t recommends to the party in each Congres-
Sionai District, the appointment of three delegates.
en- Rs0fed-That the delegates large, have power to
HI any vacancy which may occur in their number.
The committee appointed to nominate State Central
committee Tor the ensuing year, recommended the fol-
lowing gentlemen to constitute the Committee
Hen'y wilson, of Natck, Edwd /. Keyes, of Ded-
man, 'no b. Alley, OF Lynn, D. w Alvord, of Green.
held Wm' b. Spooner of Boston, Nathaniel Hinckley,
oil baFnstabe, Estes Howe, of Cambridge Moses Wood
Oh fHchDurs' H. L. Gorham, of Fichburg, and VIM.
CiaiIn' OF Hopkinton; and tae report was adopted.
Mr. John A Bodies, of Boston, then addressed the
convention in an able, and effective speech of some
length, IN which he reviewed the course of the bunker
rties upon the slavery question: and defended the CO..
aIitlon from the aspersons of the wing press.
On motion of Mr.. Alden, of Cambridge. it was voted
t. appoint nine deltgaes at large to the National Con.
ventlon of the Wing party, and the chair apr ointed
cmmIttee OF one from each Congressional District, to
nominate the same who retired, and afterwards return.
ed and reported the following names:
Charles F. Adams, Of Quincy, Charles Sedawick. Of
Lenox, Stephen c. Phillips, of Salem Charles Allen.
OF Worcester, Gershom B. Weston of Duxbury, Henry
Wilson of Natck, J. W. Graves of Lowell, VIM. B.
Spooner, of RoXbuy and ]. II. Shaw, of Nantucket
Voted to adopt the report.
The convention was then addressed By Hon. Ger.
shom B. Weston, of Duxbury, who after an eloquent
exposition of the downward tendencies of the wing par
ty to which he once belonged, until capped the eli.
max oil It's eachery to freedom, by the passage Of the
fugitive slave law, and the endorsement Of Daniel WEBB
ster and Milard Fillmore. He concluded with an ell
oquent appeal to the members of the convention TO 20
home and work for the mtherance of their princines
until the right should triumph
On motion of Mr.. White, Of Watertown. it was voted
that the thanks of the convention be given to Hon.
Horace Mann, for the able and impartial manner in
which he had presided the convention; to which
Mr. Mann responded by saying that ''lhere were less
than two months before the election, put into them the
work Of a whole year,
Upon motion of Mr.. Brown, of Salem, The conven.
ton then adjourned sine die, the whole convention oin-
log as one man in cheering for Pafiey Allen, Mann.
Sumner and the cause and feeling in their hearts that
" had been good for thengeves, for the Old Bay State
and Tor the cause of freedom, that they had been here
to renew their vows of allegiance to those great prnc
pies Of constitutional freedom which are the birtbriobt
OF the descendants of the fathers of the Republic.