Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-03
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC STATE CONvEN.
TION IN MASSACHUSETTS

This Convention met i'm Boston, at the Music
Hall, on the 3ist ult. A vast audience was in
attendance, and the interest of the proceedings
was enhanced by tho scene then being enacted
at the Court House.
Mr. Bird, chairman Of the State Committee,
calling the Convention to order, said that it
was not its purpose to operate specially upon
the Fugitive Case, but to organize the Anti
Slavery sentiment Of the Commonwe alth, and
make it effcctual against tho Slave Power
While the Committee on Nominations was
preparing list of officers Joshua r. Giddings
was loudly called for. He responded in brief
speech, in which, after some pungent illusions
to the trial going on in sight Of Bunker Hill,
no spoke encouragingly of the prospects of the
Anti Slavery Cause.
Gwen mon, unexpected, stood up in the
halls Of Congress and represented this feeling
There were no better men there than Kittredge
and Morrison OF New Hampshire-they are
even almost ready to swear they never belong
cd to the Democratic party. There was one
universal feeling at Washington among North
ern men for unanimous action upon the Slave
ry question. He never himself felt more con-
ident of the speedy triumph Of FREQ sentiment
than ut the present time, though he never
heretofore had seen an instance where the
National Executive had set himself against the
wishes Of the North without success He then
alluded by instances to the powerful influence
that the Administration exercised in behalf Of
the Nebraska bill. He recommended the dri
wing out Of these men from the highest to the
lowest, by uniting our votes upon only those
known to be liberty-lovng men, Congressman
have been bought and sold at much cheaper
price than black men are knocked of in the
SOUTH
The Committee on Nominations reported a
list of officers for the Convention, which was
unanimously accepted. Thcophilus p Chand-
Ter, Of Boston, was chosen President, assisted
by numerous Vice Presidents; and, on taking
tho chair, made few stirring remarks.
A Committee on Resolutions having been
appointed, John p Hale, in response to an en-
thusiastic call addressed tho meeting. He
called upon the Convention to pass no now res.
olutions, but enforce the old ones. Boston, in
1868, when she had but 1000 people, passed q
resolution that tho Stamp Act should not be
enforced--and IL uds not enforced Much had
been said about resort to violence. The vio-
lence he recommended was the violence Of the
ballot-box.
If we have any purpose, let us enforce it at
the ballot-box. Let us not longer suffer this
institution TO tyrann;ze over us under the
shadow Of Bunker Hill. IL the spirits Of the
departed havo any cognizance over what is
TRANSPORTING here, what must be the feelings of
those who, on the 18th Of june ITS, vndica-
ted their sincerity by their death, when told
that tho shaft erected over their bones, ~ the
sun strikes it, sends its shadow over city,
where the habeas corpus and oil other sale
guards # liberty are trampled in the dust"
The Committee on Resolutions reported the
following:
Resoiped, That in this crisis, when liberty
seems doomed TO utter destruction, unless tho
whole North is rallied to her defence, the Free
Democracy are willing to relinqnish oil party
considerations, TO forget all past hostilitee, TO
disregard all minor differences to sacrifice
everything but their principles, in order to sc.
cure an effectual union Of true men against the
mighty conspiracy OF shareholders and dough
faces that now threatens 10 overthrow the
peace, the honor, and the Free institutions OF
the country