The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-09
STATE CONVENTIONS ETC

A State Central Committee was chosen and
a series of resolutions adopted. We have M, /
room for further proceedings this week.
Vermont.-The Free Democracy of thisSta.
met at Montpelier, on Tuesday, May 81. Hon
G. w. Bailey presided; assisted by Hon. W R
Shafter, S. A. Weber, H. Stewart, and y
Griswold, Vice Presidents; g. c. Samson and
p Welch, Secretaries. The following tickst
was placed in nomination
Observation-Disclosures Brainerd Lieut. G,,.
ernor WIN. M. Pingry; Treasurer-D P
Thompson.
The st. Adams Democrat (old line) saws that
the attendance was respectable the best Of
feeling was exhibited, and the nomination,
were unanimous" He adds that he knows tba
candidate for Governor, and, though differing
widely from him in politics, can freely say thai
he is man of superior Judgment broad views
and is the most consistent Free-Soler or Abo-
litionist we have ever met"
We shall publish the resolutions in the next
Era.
Ohio.-An active contest is going on in this
State Our friends are on the alert, and are
holding continuous meetings. Hon. s. P Chase
Samuel Lewis, and ]. R. Giddings, have been
addressing their fellow citizens. We see the
following appointments announced for Samuel
Lewis, who will be assisted by J. r. Brinker.
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and others, viz:
Delaware, Delaware county, June 10.
Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, June II.
Bucyrus, Crawford county, June 49,
Mt. Vernon, Knox county, June Is.
Ashland, Ashland county, June l6.
Plymouth on the line of Richland and Hul
ron counties, June II.
Norwalk, Huron county, June 49,
Sandusky City Erie county, June Is aud 2OI
Tiffn, Seneca county, June 81.
Our friends in Ohio are enthusiastic and
their activity deserves success
Rev. JOHN G. FEE writes to the Cleveland
Free Democrat that D. M Fearis has been
elected magistrate or justice of the peace, fo}
Chenille, Kentucky. He says that Fear
has been for the last eight or ten years an acI
tive, out-spoken, Incorporating voting AbOI
litionist There are many emancipationists
Kentucky, who are for emancipation, gradua
and coupled with colonization. But FEARS
and has been for many years an Abohtion,a-
repentance immediate and on the soil Becaus(
these were his principles many protested Chris
tians (Presbyterians and Methodists anon
others voted against him, though he was
temperance man. and his opponent prO-sl
very man, whiskey- drinker and law, break
er, in the sale of whiskey, yet Fearis was elect
ed. This We regard as triumph. FEARS is
perhaps, the first avowed Abolitionist that has
ever been elected to any civil office in Ken
lucky"
VIM. s. PRICE, of Spencerville, Alabama ha'
an article in Hunts Merchants Magazine en-
titled the Moral Benefits of Slavery" in which
he asserts that "the Bible recognizes and
teaches the enslavement of the heather, and
that they are merchantable property" that
slavery is the true, speedy and successful me
thod for civilizing the heathen,' and that we
have not the least evidence that slavery can
cease SO long as there are heather n the world
He urges as an excuse for sending his article
to the Merchants Magazine, that slaves are
considered and used as merchantable property
by nearly one-half of the States and hence
any information respecting it would be pars1
lei with information respecting any othel
species of merchandise
far as we can discover, contain any new fact
in relation to the system, or any new argu{
ments but its cool assumptions that slaves ar
"chattels" and nothing else, and that the BI
BILE sustains and countenances slavery as 1t
practised in the United States are worthy OF
observation.
CHINA-Recsnt advices Indicate that the
rebellion in the celestial empire will probably
succeed in deposing the reigning Tartar dy
nasty. Should the insurgents be successful
the effect will be to open the ports now closed
to outside barbarians. The revolutionists gam
force as they approach the imperial city
Bayard Taylor, who has been appointed al
tache to the China embassy by Hon Humphrey
Marshall, thus writes to the Tribune IRON
Macao, under date of March 20;
"The rebels boldly avow their intention o.
overthrOwing the present dynasty. They ehI
hibt the greatest skill and Judgment in the 4
operations, and their career is marked by
succession of uninterrupted triumphs. 1hev
retain no city or fortress which they capture
| respect private property commit no outrage'
ON individuals, and seek to conciliate those
whom they conquer. The consequence is, then
| ranks are continually increasing, and unles
checked before long, they will succeed in thel
aims. The British steamers ostensibly 90 u
to protect British property in Shanghae. 1t !
not known whether they will do more than thi
since should the rebels succeed, the probabl
effect will be to open all the ports Of China t
the world The crisis is intensely interesting
It is the first time in nearly two centuries thai
the Imperial Government has been seriously
menaced"
THE PREsBYTERIAN GENERAL AssEnBLi
o. S-On Friday, the committee appointed o'
the last Assembly, on the rights of conscience
and religious liberty, made report, accomPa
MED by resolutions appealing strongly IN raw,
Of the rights of American citizens abroad aD'
applauding the action of the American GOV
ernment in the treaty with the Oriental H'
public of Uruguay, which, after some d's'D'
l..
sion, were adopted. Directors ior the INC
logical seminaries were elected, ana o'D.
business transacted; after which the AsseD'
bly, adjourned, to meet at Buffalo IN o.''
1854.
The West Pennsylvania Stats Zoiu"s'
Wing paper published at Pittsburgh, urges ~ :,
readers to unite with the Free Democracy :
says: su.. %.
@But what results do we expect Of TINS sa :,
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