New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-18
THE VOICE OF THE NORTH.
NO SLAVERY EXTENSION.
NEBRASKA IN FANEUIL HALL.

BOSTON, Thursday, Feb. 10, 1891.
There is an old Town Hall in Boston which echoed to
be plain earnest oratory that set going the American
Revolution and wrested from kngcraft and prestcraft
this great lotion. Without it, Bunker Hill would
never have seen its sky piercing shaft. The old Hail.
sad TO say has often since had its glorious laurels
soled beneath seryie feet and echoed to voices only
AZ TO chsunt the praises of despots. But the demo
cratic old brick and mortar remain guiless and let all
such sycOpbantc lying and fustian go down to oby-
ion while they shine out with the living words OF OTIS
land Sam Adams like the stern walls OF BelshaZzers
palace The spot will be dear to Liberty while there
is free and manly heart in Massachusetts, At such
time as ais Faneu Hall grows warm, ardent, incan-
descent. Its old atmosphere revives; its old memories
crowd back
The people focked into the venerable old hall to-day
at the cali of the Free Soil Committee, with very little
respect for party lines Men that are men came as
delegates and their hook from all parties and
all parts of the State 1t is quite plain to one who
Knows tie faces of here that this is not party
but peoples question. The attendance, in spite OF
the most melancholy weather, was full and OF supe
rior quality The Convention was called to order at
70 o'clock by +. w Bird Chairman of the State Com
nitee of the Free Sellers and organized by the ap
pcintment of the following list of officers:
Pyesident-Eon DANIEL w ALvoRD, of Greenfield.
F: solC }TG: a isaac f5
@ nON SSd, 6Rne GaGD
Dorchester; Charles Ellis RoHbay Or Charles Beck Cambridge
Essmitb Lowell William Wsshburn Boston Henry Chaplin
wSsm,ton Daniel Adams Newbuy; Nathaniel Hiuckley Barn
\ stable
ssersaric,-F II. Underwood Thornton Ware Charles W.
slack + o Hi dIetb Edmund Anthony.
Mr. Avord in taking the chair, said among other
things that he had much veneraton for the sa
credness ofsOme cOmpacs or compromises. They were
but legislative acts The mischief in the present case
was that compromise was to be rescnded, OF which
the consideration on one side had been fully paid. III
the inquity of refusing the pledged equivalent was now
IL atal lot laaCt ha
with regard TO other compromises. The lesson would
not be lost
Letters we're read from John P Hale, P. Chase,
Preston King, and Charles Sumner
During the absence of the Committee on Resolutions
remarks were made by several gentlemen. Mr..
Burincame, of Cambridge, walked the echoes by some
personal remarks the =" Little Giant Mrs. Nichols
Of Vermont, said he, ashamed that her State should
have been the birth place of Douglas, had suggested
that he Douglas) had of late been aspupi 2Of Car
Nicholas. He was no admrer of the Gar, but mnst
defend him against sucha man as Douglas. The Rus
sian AutOcra INSCRIPTIONS as he is would scOrn such
plot that by which Douglas is seeking to extend
chattel Slavery Nicholas is circumscribng serdom,
not opening markets for slave breeders. Vermont
could not be so relieved from her disgrace. The blot
Of producing Douglas paled the dark impntation
thrown upon her by the fertile imagination of Harriet
Beecler Stowe in making her the birthplace of Legree
That end faced the slaves and logged the Uncle Toms
himself Douglas owns the Uncle Toms and lives on
their toll but dares not fog them He employs an
other to do that.
n DR. VIM. +. Claiming the protector of the Boston
Fire Alarm Telegraph stated some interesting facts IN
regard to the geographical character of Nebraska. In
HE western travels he had fallen in with pioneer who
he'd ayersed that vast territory in all directions and
gave Il as his opinion that it would yet be the granary
Of the world. Its fertile praires, mines OF coal and
streams of water its fine climate visited by the south
winds detected across its valleys by the Rocky Noun
Ains gave it vast agricultural 1t was the
tey country for the home of free labor and such be-
ng the fact the decision of this question becomes OF
tsnseendent Importance. The Convention, after re-
Peated motions to adjourn for dinner, which voted
down to hear speakers who called for, finally at
y "a O'clock adjourned till s.