The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-09-25
NO. 247.
,nssACHUSETTS FREE SOIL STATE
MAJ CONVENTION.

tl'"' ,v;Ison when Hon. Benjamin V French,
u,' n.,;,trec was chosen Chairman pro tenn,
- Hoar. of Worcester. Secretary.
anu H' notion of Estes How. Of Cambridge a
~ .,r,;ttee of Organization was nominated by
the -. 'r ,,oticn OF VIM A. White Committee
V%-.Jentials was voted. consisting of Messrs
% WA. Of Watertown. Saunders of Lawrence,
" '' Su,nner of Boston, Walker Of Pittsield,
,aj Hiram Smith of Fall River.
''' ~, notion Of Mr. Addison Fay, of Concord,
r., Soil members of Congress, and men,
iu' - ,be Free Soil State Central Committee
y,, MORO present were invited TO participate in
,ro,eedings of the Convention.
u" be Committee on Organization reported the
,llpwing list Of officers
C,y P6Hidrnt-Hon. Horace Mann. OF New
"'' r.. p,ssjI,aiS-John C. Park of first dis.
-. Samual +, Sewall, Of second district; Geo.
:, lsv or third district j. T. Buckingham, of
I'll district Alexander De Witt of fifth dis
H",.u q Neweomb of sixth district r.. r.
-, or seventh district Samuel Downer, .ir,
~ l,.' NH district c. B. Weston of ninth dis
" .r;ot Nathaniel IIinckley, of tenth district.
Sslr,l1rje,-G. F. HOar, of Worcester; J. w.
Stone of Boston Edmund Anthony, OF New
Bedford James H. Morton of Springfield
Mr. Mann was conducted 10 the chair by
Ns.srs. Alley of Lynn, and Alyord of Green
esld and proceeded to address the Convention
in a speech of upwards of an hours length
On motion Of Gen Wilson. committee to
rrepare resolutions was appointed, consisting of
the following gentlemen: Henry Wilson, of
Natick: s. g. Howe of Boston J. b. Alley, OF
LINN: ]. w Graves of Lowell; J. A. Bodies, Of
Worcester: d. w. Alyord, l.. c. Thayer, of
Adams w. H. Spear, of Plymouth; T. g. Coffin
Of Nantucket
Oo motion of D. w AlyOrd, Esq, of Green
ssld Stephen c. Phillips, of Salem, was nomi-
Mated as the candidate for Governor by accla-
nation After the long and general acclama-
,;on had ceased Hon. Charles Allen, of WOr-
c..ter. announced that it was the unalterable
determination of Mr. Phillips not to he a can
d;date of the party for the present year. The
reason assigned for his declining the nomina-
tm was that the candidacy would be incOn-
.istent with his other duties
.ACtar so,ue consultation and several motions
was finally voted: on motion of Mr., Church.
.ol NestN5fs So sS-;RSo s ;.s.5 sc@i las.1sst
the afternoon
ineraoon.-Mr. Burlingame of Cambridge,
addressed the Convention.
The following gentlemen were nominated as
the State Central Committee: Henry Wilson, of
Natick F. L. Reyes, of Dedham: J. B. Alley,
Of LYNN: d. w. Alvord of Greenfield w. b.
Spooner of Boston ~ Hnkley of Barnstable;
Estes Howe. of Cambridge; Moses Wood, of
Concord Dr. Sabn of Williamstown; VIM.
Clahn. of Hopkinton; G. F. Williams, of Bos-
ton. a. c. Brown, of Salem; J. w. Graves of
Lowell G. NJ Brooks of Concord Charles
White. of Worcester: Erastus Hopkins, of
Northampton; L. NJ. Crane of Dalton; +. W.
Bird of Walpole Caleb Swan of Easton Rod
ney French Of New Bedford
Mr. Alley of Lynn, from the committee to
collect and count the votes, now appeared upon
the platform to announce the result OF the bal
Iotmc for Governor The result was, that $50
votes were cast necessary to choice, All.
John g. Palfrey had Gil
William Jackson 81
Horace Mann 63
AmaSa Walker II
and the rest were scattering. This announces
ment was received with great cheering. which
WAS continued for several minutes. The vote
would undoubtedly have been much larger had
1t been understood long enough previously that
Mr. Phillips would not accept a nomination
and time given to prepare ballots. As it was
nearly all the ballots for Mr.. Palfrey were
written on the spur of the moment, and the
supply was exhausted before the demand fOI
them ceased
MIR. Newcomb moved that the Convention
nominate John G.. Palfrey as it's candidate fol
Governor by unanimous accamation series
Of shouts that shook the Hall responded to thin
proposal, and testified the deep and exultant
enthusiasm with which the vast assembling,
hailed the nomination.
'On motion of Samuel Downer, Jr., of Dor
chester. Amasa Walker, of North Brookfield
was unanimously nominated by reclamation
as the candidate of the Free Soil party fo
Lieutenant Governor Of the Commonwealth
committee having waited upon MIR. Pal
frey, that gentleman appeared in the Hail. anC
accepted the nomination rendered him in few
appropriate remarks.
The following resolutions were reported by
John A Bolles, Esq, General Wilson having
been obliged to return to Boston J
l. Resoircd, That at the present moment
when the example of Willard Fillmore and
Daniel Webster is daily followed by the apps
tacy of humber politicians, and when in large
Conventions the cause of freedom is treated
with indifference or contempt it becomes the
true friends Of freedom, renouncing all Other
ton which with Freedom for its watchword
shall enter with controlling influence into the
coming election.
? Re,Oired, That, while other parties in or
der Ia carry out their political schemes are
driven 10 concealment of their real opinions,
the Free Soil party openly and fully declares
itself ON all pending questions, and invites the
ireest scrutiny at once of its principles and its
candidates.
3 ReSolred, That the Free Soil party is pre-
emnently the party Of the Constitution and of
the Union, of law and order, of freedom and
progress; that it is opposed in principles and
aims to sectiOnalsm, secession, and disunion,
and knows no North no South, no East no
West but embraces with equal patriotic love
the country the whole country one and indi-
visible
4. krSoiced, That we call upon all good citi-
zens IN the words Of Charles Sumner, while
serving the Union loyalty in the spirit of the
tatbers never to forget those true principles OF
he Constitution, according 10 which Freedom
tand not Slavery, is national, while Slavery, and
not Freedom. Is sectional
,. Re>otred, That liberty is the inherent and
inaiienable birthright Of every human being. Of
whatever cline, color, or condition, and that the
protection of this birthright is one Of the first
and highest duties Of government
D RSoiued That Congress has no more pow
er to establish slavery than to establish a mon
arcly-no more power TO make a slave than TO
make a king
l. Resolved That the firm establishment Of
t1e National Policy which we proclaim--no
slavery under the Federal Government; no
more Slave States-would arrest at once the
asgressions of the Slave Power, give repose to
our country and secure the stability of the
y hsoired. That the Ordinance of 1887,
called the Jefferson Proyiso, was the efficient
protection Of freedom from the encroacbments