Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-17
AFTERNOON SESSION.

AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention called order quarter past three
The Committee to collect votes for Lieutenant Governor
reported
Whole number of votes. ...................5
Necessary Tor Oh jlce ..................235
VIM. G. Plunkett, of Adams, had 500
Scattering, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
and VIM. c. Plunkett of Adams, declared the nomi-
On motion of Mr. Dexter of Boston, the nomination was
made unanimous.
Joseph White, Esq, of Lowell, Chairman of the Com.
mittee on Resolutions then reported as follows:
RESOLUTIONS.
l. ResoLUed, That the Wing party Of Massachusetts,
true to liberty, the Constitution and the Union needs
not to abandon its organzaton.or change principles
2. Res0iUed, That the amendments the Constitution
passed by the last Legislature under the
ton Of all parties wise and expedient and well
lated to meet the progressive spirit of the age and
reasonable wishes of all those who sincerely desire amend
ments to present Constitution, and that will labor
to the election of Senators and Representatives
vorable to their adoption
8. ResOiued, Thatthe Union formed to EsrAB-
JUSTICE, insure DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, promote the
GENERAL WELFARE and the blessings of LIBERTY
to OURSELVES and our PosTERITY."
4. ReSoLUed, That 'we cherish cordial, habual and
mmovabe attachment to the Union the palladium of
political safety and prosperity !" that recognize
and ever, fealty to the Constitution md obi
cations to maintain it principles, and yield to its require
nents.
s. Resolued, That it was the policy of the fathers of
the republic 10 conne slavery to its then existing limits
evidenced by the passage of the ordinance of 1851
applied to all the territories Of the Union thus clearly
establishing cardinal principle of the Government
that slavery should be forever prohibited in the public
ondin.
g. ResoLUed, That the recent act Of the National Leg
sature, in wantoniy and aithlessy annulling solemn
covenant which had stood than thirty years. and of
which the South had received the full benefit leaves no
restrictions upon the action Of the free States the
ect of slavery, beyond the provisions of the Con-
sttution itself
Z. ReSoiUed, That the repeated and long continued
aggressons of the advocates of slavery extension have
awakened the people Of Massachusetts, and of the
States the fact that their end and aim is political SUI
premacy that by this last browning the repeal of the
Missouri compromise, effected through Southern fahless
and Northern reachery, stimulated by the corrupt
of executive influence, the naked question of liberty
slavery the controlling principle Of the government,
is presented the American people and for ourselves
minaton at all times under all circumstances so to
exercise constitutional rights to the bles
sings of liberty to ourselves and our posterty."
s. Rescued, That unalteraby opposed TO the
extension Of slavery foot of territory free
that will seek the immediate and unconditional
repeal Of much of the Nebraska and Kansas
annus the Missouri compromise and that will oppose
the admission into the confederacy OF any State
formed Of any OF territorial possessions unless
slavery is prohibited therein.
R9 RESOLVED, That the provisions in the Constitution
Of the United States shat the citizens Of each State shall
be entitled to all the privileges and imunes Of citizens
In the several States has been for years. and is now
grossly violated by those States Of this Union where laws
exist for the imprisonment Of citizens Of Massachusetts
without trial, or the mputa ion Of crime.
10. RESOLVED, That the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
e,ntans harsh and arbitrary provisions, which