Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-03
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

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PROMISE must be repealed
Resolved, That Slavery in the District of Co.
lambda, must be abolished
Rssoivfd, That Slavery must be prohibited
in all the Territories Of the United States, both
in these to DO acquired and in those already
established
Resoiped, That all new States must be free
States
Resolved, That Cuba, if it comes into the
Union, must come in free.
Resoipsd, That the independence Of Hay
must be acknowledged.
Resoiped, That the rights of our colored
citiz M going to other States must be pro-
tected
R.soived, That every man has a right to
himself and therefore no man can own another
man.
Or soiped, That the Fugitive Slave Bill is
destitute Of every attribute Of justice or hu
rnanity, is at war with the spirit of Liberty,
| with the principles Of Law, with the purposes
Ut the Constitution, with the best feelings OF
mankind, and ought therefore TO DO at once
forever repealed
Rssolped, That Massachusetts has the con
stitutional right and it il her imperative duty,
TO enact laws which shall protect the personal
| freedom of all her citizens and secure the
| right Of trial by jury under all circumstances
involving the question of human liberty"
Mr.. Giddings then took the floor, and nd
dressed the Convention in speech, not yet
reported. He was followed by Henry Wilson,
in 4 most fervent appeal for the union of true
men against the Slave Power. We have room
only for extracts from his speech.
!. wish TO be understood here, to-day, in re-
4 IA Va tn mt
with Democrats OF Wings to carry ont our
principles. We will forget organizations; we
will 90 into the rear; we will do tho work; if
there is sforlorn hope to BIO led, we will
lead it. and others may fill tho places OF honor,
il they will only be true to our principles,
Teat cheering; but our principles must be
engraved on their hearts, and written on their
fireheads; and they must live by them forever.
Renewed cheering
| "The first duty We owe to the country is
To extermnate--to eIterm'nate-the forty-fonr
Northern traitors in the House of Representa-
ives a. Washington, Enthusiastic Plaaudits
| aOur next duty is to sustain those Repre-
sentatives from the North who voted against
this Nebraska iniquity, and who will pledge
themselves to the country and the world, that
it shall be repealed. Applause
eThen, we mean to repeal the Fugitive Slave
Bill Enthusiastic cheeringl No man must
represent the free States OF the Union, unless
he will consent to blot from the statute book
Of this republic an act that dishonors human
nature, and disgraces the ago in which we
live. Renewed applaanael
| ~ tul.:~ ,u,-l., oc H. c.oo Go taa :.
You have been betrayed by the Badgers, the
Dawsons, the Toombses, and the Joneses of the
Sonth. Now is the honr to emancipate one
million of Northern freemcn, and put them on
the side IF Liberty They cannot act with
1 their Southern allies, without treason to their
professed principles, and without dishonor.
awe have it now in our power to make
Northern party that shall sweep over every
! free State Of this Union--a party that shall
place one hundred and forty-six Representa-
lives on the flor Of Congress and make Pres
dent who shall represent the true ideas upon
which our institutions arc founded and de.
clare here, to-dsy, my readiness, my willingness
to forget the IRst, to give up our position, to
yield everything bnt these principles, and to
unite with any man who will agree to carry
them out. Bull proclaim it here, that there
is no member Of the Wing party--no, not even
WILLIAM H. StwARD, by far the ablest and
most comprehensive statesman that party now
has in the country say there is not man
in the ranks of nat party whom ! would vote
for as the nominee of the National Wing party
OF the United States, as against the mcanest
man in tho United States. Applause |
should only be placing myself in position to
be cheated again Amy party that has South
ern Pro- Slavery wing, must, when it comes into
power, be Pro- slavery power; and the more
Anti Slavery professions they have made when
out Of power, themore Pro Slavery they must
BIO when they getinto power"
Mr.. Wilson closed by a striking thought in
relation to the dsgraceful trial then in progress
in Boston. We commend it to the attention Of
the People of all sections
aGentlemen think there is no spirit in the
community, or yonder Court House would have
been stormed with violence. Had monarch
made that Fugitive Slave Bill, the people would
have overthrow him, ard torn down that build
ing to the ground and scattered salt over its
ruins. The people here feel that they are the
sovereign power, that they have the balIot-b box,
that when the people are right they can change
their Government peacca5ly, and il they are
not right il il Of no use TO create rebellion.
The people know, further than all this, that it
was one of our own Massachusetts men that
labored to make that very law"
Several other speeches were made, and meas
ures we're taken to carry ont plan, started a
few weeks ago, to raise Million Freedom
Fund.- A large amount Of money bad already
been raised, and the Commonwealth intimatcs
\ 49, thn~o 4, tr ha M lack of tho aiuaWa al
war;
The Convention then adjourned.